Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Forgotten News: Unlike BHO, JFK Praised Ataturk
Whereas President Obama has emboldened Turkey's Islamist leaders--and encouraged their tilt toward Iran--President Kennedy unequivocally praised Turkey's great modernizing leader, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, founder of the Turkish Republic and its first president.China Building Space Station
China says it has finished construction on the first module of a permanent space station, and is testing its systems before launching it next year.
Officials said Tuesday the Tiangong-1 module will need to pass a series of electrical, mechanical and thermal performance tests before being sent into orbit in 2011. An unmanned spacecraft, Shenzhou-8, will be launched later in the year and will rendezvous with the Tiangong-1 for China's first space docking.
If the docking is successful, later missions are planned with live astronauts who will live and work at the space station. China says astronauts already are being trained for the manned mission, which may include the country's first female astronaut.
China is one of only three countries, along with the United States and Russia, that have launched their own astronauts into space. Zhai Zhigang became the first Chinese astronaut to conduct a spacewalk in September 2008.
India last year announced plans to launch its own astronauts by 2015.
China Confidential analysts say the space station project should be seen in the context of China's opaque military buildup. The U.S. Defense Department reports:Earlier this decade, China began a new phase of military development by articulating roles and missions for the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) that go beyond China’s immediate territorial interests. Some of these missions and associated capabilities have allowed the PLA to contribute to international peacekeeping efforts, humanitarian assistance and disaster relief, and counter- piracy operations. The United States recognizes and welcomes these contributions. Other investments have allowed the PLA to pursue anti-access and area-denial strategies. Still others appear designed to improve the PLA’s ability for extended-range power projection, although China’s ability to sustain military power at a distance, today, remains limited. As the 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review Report notes, “China is developing and fielding large numbers of advanced medium-range ballistic and cruise missiles, new attack submarines equipped with advanced weapons, increasingly capable long-range air defense systems, electronic warfare and computer network attack capabilities, advanced fighter aircraft, and counter-space systems.”
One year ago....UK Slams Iran Over Stoning Case
Back in Washington, however, the Obama administration is silent, bent on appeasing the Islamist menace--and Islamism in general.N. Korean Jet Crashes in Apparent Defection Try
Obama's Radical Pals Helped Organize Gaza Flotilla
Video History 2: Islamonazi Origins ... Adolf Hitler and the Grand Mufti, a Circle Opened and Closed
Thursday, 19 August 2010
London speaks out, as reported here.
Former Weather Underground terrorists Ayers and Dohrn, now working for Israel's destruction ... as reported here.
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