Sunday, May 16, 2010
china confidential
Symbolic Victory for Democracy in Hong Kong
Crackpot of Caracas Signs New Currency Law
Cuban Rappers ... Censored and Repressed
S. Korea Fires Warning Shots at N. Korean Boat
Gold Advances in Asia
Profile in Chaos and Lunacy: Thai General
Lula Meets with Ahmadinejad, Defends Iran Nuke Program, Calls Relations with Tehran 'Strategic'
Aiding the Enemy? The NY Times Exposes Secret US Intelligence Operations in Pakistan and Afghanistan
History of Giant North American Port Explosions Underscores Urgent Need to Shore Up Security
Monday, 17 May 2010
Pro-democracy candidates won the mostly symbolic special election in Hong Kong. But the results are not likely to influence Beijing. Click here for the report.
China Confidential analysts say China's Communist Party rulers have no intention of ever allowing real democracy in Hong Kong.
Venezuela's Communist strongman signed a new currency law Sunday, and details are still fuzzy, as reported here.
South Korean warships fired warning shots at a North Korean patrol boat this weekend amid rising tensions. Click here for the story.
The precious metal continues to climb, as reported here.
Click here for the story.
A once-stable, U.S. ally is on the verge of civil war, as reported here.
China Confidential sources in Thailand expect the chaos and violence to spread.
In the meantime, the bloody clashes are affecting Japanese companies, as reported here.
History is repeating itself in so many different ways.
Islamist/Islamonazi Iran's South American strategy is producing tangible results for Tehran's nuclear-arming, turbaned tyranny. The strategy recalls Nazi Germany's prewar penetration of the continent and Hitler's plan to use South American bases to attack the United States.
Brazil is falling into place.
How far the United States has come, nearly nine years into the long war against Islamist terror, from the patriotic ardor, moral clarity, and sense of unity and purpose that prevailed during the Second World War.
The nation's most influential and leading pro-appeasement newspaper has exposed an apparently crucial intelligence operation. Click here for the story.
For entertainment and historical contrast, click below to screen a vintage public affairs cartoon that used humor to remind wartime, movie-going audiences that loose lips sink ships. The central character, Private SNAFU, while drunk, reveals information to Axis spies that allows the enemy to torpedo his troop ship. [Warning to liberal readers: Private SNAFU would probably be considered politically incorrect by today's CNN/see-no-evil standards of moral equivalence and debilitating self-doubt.]
WASHINGTON -- May 13 -- New York lawmakers blasted the Homeland Security Department Wednesday for not reconsidering planned cuts to New York's transit and port security grants despite the May 1 Times Square bomb attempt.
Like other cities, New York City will see its funding cut by about a quarter in grant awards that DHS is to announce Thursday after Congress reduced 2010 appropriations for each program from $400 million last year to $300 million this year.
Nearly nine years after 9/11, the U.S. maritime system, consisting of more than 300 sea and river ports with more than 3,700 cargo and passenger terminals, is still way too vulnerable to terrorist attacks, including, as Iran proceeds to develop nuclear bombs and warheads, the detonation of an atomic device that could be smuggled into a port in a shipping container.
Consider the potential destruction in light of the history of North American port explosions:
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