Thursday, February 23, 2012
Michael Jordan Sues Chinese Company
US Basketball Star Has Near Zero Chance of Overcoming
US on Alert for Possible Iran Plots
The news--read it here--follows Foreign Confidential™ early warnings.Syria Targeted Building Housing Journalists
New Antisemitic Attacks by Chavez
Friday, 24 February 2012
Home Court Advantage; If He Was Going Up Against an
HK Company in a US Court, He Could Win … and Collect
The NBA legend has filed a lawsuit in China against a Chinese company over name use, as reported here.
He's in for a costly, protracted and ultimately frustrating and disappointing experience. No American--not even Michael Jordan--can beat a Chinese company in a Chinese court. The game is rigged from the get-go.
Too bad for Jordan that he isn't suing a Hong Kong Chinese company in the United States, or in Hong Kong, for that matter. Hong Kong has a separate, internationally respected legal system. Most important, judgments won overseas can be enforced in Hong Kong through well established legal procedures.
On that score, Foreign Confidential™ legal analysts have been following an intriguing case involving a Wall Street financial firm and a Hong Kong-based Chinese coal-blending company. Click here to read about the dispute; here, to read about Hong Kong's legal system in the context of threats to the area's identity; and here, to read about how lawsuits against Chinese companies are contributing to China's increasingly negative image in the United States. Given how celebrity-driven the news business has become, Jordan's case is certain to draw media attention to the topic.
Sports fans and other Americans are going to learn a lot about China's legal system.
If it is attacked by the United States and/or Israel, Iran is likely to retaliate by launching terrorist and/or missile strikes on the U.S. homeland.
Moreover, Iran could strike first; it is clearly considering preemptive assaults.
U.S. coastal cities could be attacked by Iranian controlled cargo ships equipped with containerized ballistic missile launch pads. Iran and North Korea have acquired and tested such systems.
Thousands of cargo ships approach U.S. waters daily; there is no known defense against a sea-based missile attack on a U.S. city.
Iran, aided by Venezuela, may have already deployed a fleet of armed freighters. Flying flags of convenience, which is customary nowadays for insurance/liability purposes, these seemingly civilian vessels could be lurking off the Atlantic or Pacific coasts--or in the Gulf of Mexico--awaiting orders to attack "the Great Satan."
Two Western journalists were killed by Syrian shelling after the Assad regime, aided by a Russian spy satellite, targeted the building in which they were staying. Read the report here.
The viciously anti-Amercan and antidemocratic Venezuelan strongman is again resorting to antisemitism to attack his political opponents and critics. Read the report here.
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