Countdown to Crisis on Korean Peninsula
UPDATE: NORTH KOREA WARNS OF ALL-OUT WAR
China Confidential expects North Korea to react sharply--with new provocations and threats--to South Korea's formal accusation that the North torpedoed a South Korean ship.
At a minimum, new North Korean nuclear and missile tests are likely.
Iran, Pyongyang's partner in nuclear/missile crime, stands to benefit from a new Korean crisis as it will divert attention from Iran's nuclear program and possibly derail the sanctions drive.
France Frees Iranian Assassin
A convicted, cold blooded killer has returned home to Iran, to a hero's welcome, as reported here. Vakili Rad was convicted in the 1991 assassination of Shapour Bakhtier, who served as Iran's prime minister before the 1979 Islamic revoluion.
The unrepentant murderer joins American-born, Iranian assassin David Belfield, who gunned down Ali Tabatabai, an Iranian diplomat-turned-democracy activist, in the doorway of his suburban, Bethesda, MD home nearly 30 years ago. Belfield, a convert to Islam, was allowed to flee the United States by the craven Carter administration, which was complicit in the overthrow of Iran's Shah, a modernizing monarch and staunch American ally (and friend of Israel).
Click here and here for that story, and here also for a related story about the Obama administration's release of a mass-murdering Palestinian terrorist--who was involved in the forgotten (by the media) bombing of a TWA passenger jet.
Over and again, Islamist and Palestinian terrorists have proven that terrorism does pay--very well, actually. Click here, here, and here for three historic examples.
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
New Iran Sanctions Watered Down Rehash
Clinton's so-called tough new sanctions on nuclear-arming Iran turn out to be anything but tough--merely a watered down rehash of old measures and proposals.
Click here for the news.
Taliban Suicide Bomb Kills 5 Americans, 1 Canadian
A deadly reminder of the destruction that lone suicide bombers--and vehicular bombs--can cause. Click here for the story.
Time and again, across the bloody Middle East, radical Islam has shown that it has the evil expertise to carry out such attacks. It would be dangerously illogical and foolish, to say the least, to count on continued luck and incompetence--e.g. the botched Times Square and Christmas Day underwear bombings--to protect the U.S. homeland against these terrorist atrocities.
India Offers Talks Amid Maoist Shutdown
India's Maoist rebels have shut down five states for 48 hours, as reported here and in the above video clip.
At the same time, India says it is willing to enter into peace talks with the increasingly bold insurgents if they halt attacks for 72 hours. Click here for the story.
The Maoist uprising in India is a big, important story that has largely been ignored or underreported by foreign media (except for China Confidential).
Chinese Tycoon Huang Guangyu Jailed for 14 Years
The rags-to-riches tycoon, once China's richest man, has been sentenced to 14 years in prison for stock manipulation, insider trading, and bribery, as reported here.
On the Meaning of the Ground Zero Mega-Mosque
Daniel Greenfield's essay on the Ground Zero monster/mega-mosque is a must-read. Here's an excerpt:What does building an Islamic "barracks" near Ground Zero really mean? What does taking over a building that was made defunct by the 9/11 attacks, buying up property for a fraction of their real price in a neighborhood whose commercial property values were destroyed by Islamic terrorism... in order to build one of those "barracks" really say? It's the next phase of the invasion. First you bomb and then you occupy.
After Al Queda "cleared the ground" in the attacks of September 11. This not only killed 3,000 people, but it also poisoned large numbers of rescue workers and damaged a number of nearby buildings, such as the Deutsche Bank building and the old Burlington Coat factory building-- which the proposed Mosque is taking over. And thanks to the massacre and devastation staged by their co-religionists, the 18 million dollar building was instead sold to a Muslim company for under 5 million dollars.Quite a discount, wouldn't you say? Kill 3,000 infidels and you get to buy the building that your co-religionists devalued at less than a third of the price. Now that is what real Sharia economics looks like.
Using Google Earth and NASA Data, Student Spots Illegal North Korean Logging in Protected Forest
It's getting harder and harder for criminals, including criminal regimes, to hide the evidence of their crimes. Click here for the story.
China-Iran Update: Clinton Claims Washington, Beijing, Moscow Reach Agreement on Sanctions
Click here for the breaking news.
China Confidential analysts say the sanctions will not be truly tough and meaningful.
There is no diplomatic solution to the problem of nuclear-arming, Islamist Iran.
The countdown to conflict has begun; and the coming war, unfortunately, will be fought on Iran's terms, for the United States has given Tehran time to prepare for a major conflagration.
Real Press Barred from Chavez 'Press Conference'
State media only....
China Backs Iran Move to Check US
China has expressed support for Iran's nuclear deal with Turkey and Brazil--a clever and effective deception and diplomatic and propaganda coup aimed at derailing the US sanctions drive that will fail even if it succeeds, so to speak, because Iran's nuclear program at this stage can only be stopped through military action.
Click here for a Reuters report on China's position and close relationship with Iran, which China Confidential has reported on for five years.
Monday, May 17, 2010
Opinion: Obama No Friend of India
An Indian analyst says Barack Obama "revels in appeasement," and is "no friend." Click hereto read the essay.
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