This is another Harry Dent gloom and gloomier, but after reading the Amazon teaser, I think he may have stumbled onto something with the demographics theme. At any rate, it appears to follow my 'teaching people how to prevent people' over-population, and womyn's choice theory.
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MICHELLE OBAMA: Every day. Thats what I tell my kids every day. Because our young people have to, you know, they have to understand where we come from in order to know where we go to go.
JOYNER: Thats right.
MICHELLE OBAMA: We still have a lot of work to do. A lot of work left to do in our communities.
The US Embassy in Tokyo has condemned charges by a top official at Japans national broadcaster NHK. NHK Naoki Hyakuta has claimed Americans fabricated war crimes against Japan during World War Two.
The embassy spokesman called the charges preposterous. He expressed hope that people in positions of responsibility in Japan would seek to avoid comments that inflame tensions in the region. Hyakuta made his claims in campaign speeches supporting a candidate for governor of Tokyo.
He said the 1937 Nanjing Massacre never occurred. He said Americans staged the postwar trial of Japanese leaders to cover up their own war crimes, including the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
The US Embassy's criticism follows Wednesdays condemnation by the Chinese Foreign Ministry. The Foreign Ministry said the international community should be alarmed by some people in Japan denying historical facts and challenging justice and human conscience.
* TOPIX, WORLD NEWS, BIGNEWSNETWORK > CHINA ANGERED AT JAPAN UNESCO BID FOR KAMIKAZE PILOT LETTERS, i.e. Japan getting these letters registered as a World Heritage asset under the auspice of promoting world peace.
WASHINGTON -- Secretary of State John Kerry vowed Friday that the United States would defend Japan against attack, even in conflicts involving islands claimed by China and Taiwan, as tensions continue to boil between the Asian powers.
There was a time when we wouldn't have had to say this publicly...
There was a time when if we did have to say it publicly other countries would take it seriously.
Kerry, who said he would visit China next week, met in Washington with Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida and reaffirmed the 1960 treaty that commits the United States to protect its ally.
"That includes with respect to the South China Sea," he said, before correcting himself to say the East China Sea, where China and Japan have conflicting claims.
Paid attention to the briefing before-hand, didya Jahwn...
Fears of conflict rose in November when China imposed an air defense identification zone over much of the East China Sea. Beijing says it now requires notification from planes crossing the Senkaku Islands, long administered by Tokyo.
"The United States neither recognizes nor accepts China's declared East China Sea ADIZ and the United States has no intention of changing how we conduct operations in the region," Kerry said.
The United States and its allies are increasingly concerned China will take similar action in the South China Sea, where the Philippines in particular has voiced worries about Beijing's maritime claims.
Kishida, for his part, extended an invitation for President Barack Obama to make a state visit to Japan.
Diplomats say Obama is likely to visit Japan during an April tour of Asia, although Kerry is not expected to stop in Tokyo on his upcoming trip.
Kishida was visiting Washington after a rare open disagreement between the two allies. The United States voiced disappointment in December when Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, known for his conservative views, paid a pilgrimage to Yasukuni Shrine, which honors 2.5 million war dead including convicted Class-A war criminals from World War II. The Shinto facility played a heavy spiritual role in Japan's military campaign.
Abe's visit outraged China and fellow U.S. ally South Korea, both of which frequently accuse Japan of showing insufficient remorse for its various acts of aggression from a century ago by allowing politicians and government officials to visit the contentious shrine.
Kishida told Kerry that Japan valued its relationship with South Korea despite their "difficult issues," saying the two democracies needed to work together in the face of nuclear-armed North Korea.
"Going forward, we will make tenacious efforts in order to build a cooperative relationship with the Republic of Korea from a broad perspective," Kishida said, using the South's formal name.
Kishida also highlighted progress under Abe in shifting U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma farther north on Okinawa -- an issue that has cast a pall over defense ties for nearly two decades.
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"That includes wid respect to the South China Sea" > I'm interpreting Kerry's statement as meaning the US will also defend the PHIL, ETAL. agz China + PLA in case of SCS mil conflict.
Vietnam, I'm a'lookin at you.
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* OTOH BHARAT RAKSHAK > [WarontheRocks.Blog] AMERICA HAS NO ANSWER TO CHINA'S SALAMI-SLICING [MilPol strategy = "creeping" territorialism?].
* DRUDGEREPORT > [FT.com] US GENERAL WARNS CHINA OVER NEW AIR ZONE, in South China Sea.
RELATED FINANCIAL TIMES > US BLAMES CHINA FOR RISING TENSIONS IN SOUTH CHINA SEA.
* TOPIX > [Dong-A] NATIONAL REUNIFICATION [pan/inter-Korean] IS NECESSARY, BUT HOW?
Yeah, D *** NG IT, how, + widout need of any NOKOR NucProg [winky-wink]???
[Lest we fergit, WAYNE'S WORLD "THUMBS UP" here].
* SAME > [Real Clear Politics] CLEAR UP AMBIGUITY ON TAIWAN.
* DEFENCE FORUM INDIA > DIAOYU ISLANDS ON CHINA'S MING MAP UNDER MING DYANSTY [1368-1644], CHINA HAS NEVER RECOGNIZED TREATY OF SAN FRANCISCO.
* WORLD NEWS > [Japan News] JAPAN, US AGREE TO PREVENT EXPANSION OF CHINA ADIZ, in the ECS + possibloe even the SCS.
* Also from JAPAN NEWS > JAPAN, US SHOULD SHOW STRENGTH OF THEIR ALLIANCE TO REST OF ASIA.
[MIGHTY HOMER SIMPSON-IAN "DOH"! here].
* YAHOO NEWS > [Motley Fool] SHOULD AMERICA BUILD MORE MINI-AIRCRAFT CARRIERS?
IMO + 1960's-70's Guam Taotamonas say Artic read, GLOBAL WARMING ESPEC WHEN THESE GWCC-PROTECTED/DESIGNED SHIPS [1000-Flag OWG Global Navy = proposed "Global Task Force"] COME TO VISIT GUAM IN FUTURE TIME.
RELATED RENSE > [Wealthy Debate] HAWAIIAN ISLANDS TO COLLAPSE, + FALL APART IN LANDSLIDES!?
GWCC "Earth Changes".
D *** NG IT, THAT DOESN'T LOOK LIKE A GUAM, OTHER ISLAND(S)-SINKING "EARTHQUAKE/TECTONIC BOMB(S)" TO ME???
How is this fair - Guam + other WESTPAC, Micronesian islands get sunk by covert or buried US NucBombs in our seafloor, while Hawaii just gets to sink into the sea naturally???
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Kerry opened his mouth, shit spewed out, He's more like Obama every day, just shut up and vanish.
Or vanish, either way.
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Looks like I was correct as per the PHIL ...
* WORLD MILITARY FORUM > PHILIPPINES HOPES FOR CHINA TO LEVY MORE THREATS AGZ ITS INTERESTS IN THE SOUTH CHINA SEA IN ORDER TO GET A SIMILAR JAPAN-STYLE "PROTECTION PROMISE" FROM US SECSTATE JOHN KERRY.
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More news from this AM ...
* WAFF > POSTER THREAD: DOES CHINA NEED AN
"ARSENAL SHIP"?, to help increase its prob of in-theater military/combat survival agz any intervening US Milfors in the ECS + SCS???
* SAME > [China-Defence.blogspot] WA REBELS [pro-Beijing "United WA Army" Myanmar/Burma-based group] TO SEND FIGHTERS TO CHINA FOR PILOT TRAINING: REPORTS.
* JAPAN TIMES > OPINION: MUTUAL FEARS OF CHINA, JAPAN.
Self-perceived, self-perpetuating "vicious circles" of mutual fears-n-suspicions that both China + Japan will lucky to just survive???
[TELEGRAPH.CO.UK] Pro-nuclear politician wins race to become Tokyo's new governor, exit polls show, in show of public support for nuclear power This the guy whose supporters the women said they wouldn't have sex with. Gonna be a dull night in Ginza 2-nite!
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The Muslim convert father of the 12-year-old girl at the center of a child sex case following her "marriage" to a 26-year-old foreigner admitted his unhappiness at their union, but said "it was not my decision". The fifth-generation Australian, who allowed the pair to be married by an imam in his home on January 12, now says he fears she may "die" from a broken heart.
He also addressed public outrage on the case following the 26-year-old Lebanese mans arrest on Thursday, saying he might "cop a little bit of abuse off people but I will have to cope with that".
The pair met at a local mosque late last year after the 26-year-old came to Australia to study at a nearby university.
He approached the mosque about marrying the girl but the Newcastle Muslim Association president said he was turned away because it was illegal and "wrong". He then approached the girl's father who converted to Islam about 18 years ago after a battle with drugs, gambling and alcohol abuse through an intermediary, who told him of the mans intentions.
He initially refused but agreed to let him come to his house to meet his daughter. He said it was almost over from the start when she found out he was 26, but she changed her mind.
The girl's father said his first concerns were more about religion than the man's or his daughter's ages. However, he said the only way they could be in any type of relationship, let alone in the same room unchaperoned, under "my interpretation of the Koran" was if they were married.
He said the couple moved to western Sydney after the marriage. He said they tried to enrol his daughter at a local high school but were told to go to Centrelink to ascertain her guardianship. The father said a social worker at Centrelink raised the alarm before authorities intervened.
The man was refused bail at Burwood Local Court on Friday after being charged by Child Abuse Squad detectives with multiple counts of sexual intercourse with a child.
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The Swiss have a national referendum process. While it occasionally is a source of low comedy, it also is a means of allowing Swiss voters to speak as a nation on policy.
What they have done here is the only rational move - they have voted to retain their integrity as a nation. Other Western countries will have to face the same question and reach their own conclusions. It is no longer possible to continue importing an underclass to support the socialist pyramid scheme we call the welfare state. Eventually the new underclass gets large enough, and wise enough, to make demands of their own.
The article itself is nothing but FUD around skilled workers needed for industry. Well, the simple fact is that Ciba Geigy will continue to hire whomever it wants. The issue is not whether PhD's should be able to work for Swiss companies. Rather it is whether politicians can continue to import large numbers of new constituents and pay for it with middle class tax money.
[Ynet] Palestinian Transportation Minister Nabil Dmaidi announced on Sunday that the Palestinian Authority intends to build an airport, sea ports and a railway to connect the Gaza Strip to Egypt. Takes money, I thought you'z was broke. You got money, or is this on Jawn Kerry's tab ?
Will the Mamluks permit that last? They aren't awfully fond of Gazans these days.
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Draw up the plans, make them 'official', then complain no one has provided the funds. Maybe Sweden can come up with some cash.
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All every Good + PCorrect, but the base question remains as to whether EGYPT will give up its sovereignty claims in Gaza to the Paleo PA so that the latter can have sovereign land to call their own???
Ditto as per JORDAN + PA-occupied West Bank.
YA KNOW - ITS A SIMPLE QUESTION, BUT ITS A VERY MUCH A BIGGIE.
UNTIL THE ABOVE QUESTIONS ARE ANSWERED OR RESOLVED, THE PA REMAINS A GOVT-PEOPLE WIDOUT A PHYSICAL COUNTRY - IFF ANYTHING, THE PA IS NOTHING BUT A POLITY/ENTITY-IN-LEASEHOLD, IE. IT BORROWS OR LEASES SOVEREIGN LAND FROM OWNERS EGYPT + JORDAN, NOT TO OWN OR CONTROL ANY IN ITS OWN NAME OR RIGHT.
On a surreal or subjective note, the PA = LITMUS TEST for post-2015 OWG NAU/Globalist Amerika = Internationally-recognized Govt-State whose physical land, resources + Comparative Endowments-Advantages, etc, is DE FACTO MAJORILY OR OVERWHELMINGLY controlled by FOREIGN NATIONS???
[Bangla Daily Star] NASA -- building on successful partnerships with private companies to resupply the International Space Station -- is now looking to private entrepreneurs to help exploit resources on the moon.
In its latest initiative, unveiled in late January, the US space agency is proposing private companies take advantage of NASA's extensive know-how, its engineers and access to its installations to help design and build lunar robots.
But unlike NASA's contracts with SpaceX and Orbital Sciences to deliver cargo to the ISS, the moon proposal -- dubbed CATALYST (Cargo Transportation and Landing by Soft Touchdown) -- would get no US government economic help.
Recent missions in the moon's orbit have revealed evidence of water and other interesting substances on the moon, explained Jason Crusan, director of NASA's advanced exploration systems.
"But to understand the extent and accessibility of these resources, we need to reach the surface and explore up close."
"Commercial lunar landing capabilities could help prospect for and utilize these resources," permitting both commercial and research activities, he said.
"As NASA pursues an ambitious plan for humans to explore an asteroid and Mars, US industry will create opportunities for NASA to advance new technologies on the moon," Greg Williams, a top NASA official, added.
In 2013 NASA reached an agreement with Bigelow Aerospace to develop commercial sector involvement with the space agency, especially focused on plans to build a lunar base.
Founded by US billionaire Robert Bigelow, the company offers inflatable space modules.
These partnerships work "very well in lower orbit," said Bigelow's Michael Gold, referring to the re-supply contracts at the International Space Station.
"There is no reason it won't work just as well on the moon," he told AFP.
"Additionally, in this austere (budget) environment, it only makes sense to leverage private sector investments and capabilities," he said.
"It's not only the best option, but, because of the lack of federal money, the best option available to move forward drastically."
According to Gold, this approach is cheaper than a standard space mission fully paid by the federal government. For a few billion dollars it could even be possible to carry out manned missions to the Moon within a decade, Gold said.
"I think there is a great commercial potential on the moon," he added, citing significant reservers of helium 3, which is rare on Earth and which could be developed into a clean energy fuel ideal for nuclear fusion.
The lunar soil is also rich in coveted rare earth elements: 17 chemicals in the periodic table that are in an increased demand because they are heavily used in everyday electronics.
"There are a vast amount of opportunities for a wide variety of companies not only in America but across the globe," Gold insisted, emphasizing Europe and Japan, as well as the US Congress, are enthusiastic about a return to the moon.
John Logsdon, former director of the Space Policy Institute at George Washington University, said these private partnerships could be "a way of NASA getting back involved with the moon without violating the president's policy that says we as a government we don't go back to the moon."
Logsdon was referring to Obama's 2010 decision to cancel the Constellation program -- created by his predecessor, George W. Bush -- which planed to return Americans to the moon by 2020 before embarking for Mars, but which was deemed too costly.
NASA chief Charles Bolden said last year his agency would not take the lead on a manned lunar mission, but wouldn't rule out the possibility of participating in one led by a private company or another country.
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AFAIK most Space Perts consider the Moon's core as "dead" - any resources it has is bound to be extremely limited in both quantity + quality.
The Moon is a nice starter, but NASA must go further, DARE I SAY "TO INFINITY-N-BEYOND"!
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NASA is viewing the loss of its monopoly status as a mixed bag. Some are eager to see space exploration continue, while others deeply dislike the idea of competing with private industry.
Marine Corps Times first casualty in headquarters' war to 'professionalize'
Independent newspaper does not conform to new Marine Corps message, brass says ..not like it's the Offul Times or anything..
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Direct violation of Freedom of Press, a component of the U.S. Constitution these soldiers are supposed to be defending, rights the socialist regime/commander in chief is stripping from military personnel.
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The doctor moved away about the same time passenger service ended and the depot was torn down. Then the paper folded and the grocery story closed. Not much around here anymore. With all the young people moving away, I honestly don't know what will become of Oceania. Must be all in the greater plan.
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You've heard of "making sure everybody is on the same page"?
This is option 'B' (no page).
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The Army-Air Force Exchange System is under DoD not the Commandant, so just hop on over to the base or post exchange near you to get your copy at the checkout. It's interesting that the 'independent' paper (Army Times, Navy Times, Air Force Times, along with its Marine Times) was critical of Chaney, but it never was moved off line because of it. Use the quotes because its ultimately owned and operated by the usual suspects in the journalism cabal.
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It is the largest U.S. newspaper publisher as measured by total daily circulation. Its assets include the national newspaper USA Today and the weekly USA Weekend. Its largest non-national newspaper is The Arizona Republic in Phoenix, Arizona. Other significant newspapers include The Indianapolis Star, The Cincinnati Enquirer, The Tennessean in Nashville, Tennessee, The Courier-Journal in Louisville, Kentucky, the Democrat and Chronicle in Rochester, NY, The Des Moines Register, the Detroit Free Press and The News-Press in Fort Myers.
So how have they covered Fast&Furious, Benghazi, the IRS politicization, etc.? Same as the rest of MSM.
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General Amos command tours have included: Marine Wing Support Squadron 173 from 1985-1986; Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 312 attached to Carrier Air Wing 8 onboard USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) from 1991-1993; Marine Aircraft Group 31 from 1996-1998; 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing in combat during Operations IRAQI FREEDOM I and II from 2002-2004; II Marine Expeditionary Force from 2004-2006; and Commanding General, Marine Corps Combat Development Command and Deputy Commandant, Combat Development and Integration from 2006 to 2008. Additional operational tours have included Marine Fighter Attack Squadrons 212, 235, 232, and 122.
General Amos staff assignments include tours with Marine Aircraft Groups 15 and 31, the III Marine Amphibious Force, Training Squadron Seven, The Basic School, and with the MAGTF Staff Training Program. Additionally, he was assigned to NATO as Deputy Commander, Naval Striking Forces, Southern Europe, Naples Italy where he commanded NATOs Kosovo Verification Center, and later served as Chief of Staff, U.S. Joint Task Force Noble Anvil during the air campaign over Serbia. Transferred in 2000 to the Pentagon, he was assigned as Assistant Deputy Commandant for Aviation. Reassigned in December 2001, General Amos served as the Assistant Deputy Commandant for Plans, Policies and Operations, Headquarters, Marine Corps. From 2008-2010 General Amos served as the 31st Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps
He's not one of my favorite Commandants (I've worked with much better ones,) but he's not exactly a REMF, to use a hoary Viet Name-era acronym.
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Again, anonymous poster, I'm no fan of the current Commandant. I've worked with better. Much better.
But, on a philosophical point, being in a "gunfight" or firing a shot "in anger" is not a sole qualifier for leadership. Look at John McCain or John Kerry.
I'm a civilian here, and do not understand many peripheral aspects of the military such as Marine Corps Times, but it is my understanding that (in modern times, land forces) after a certain rank the opportunity to personally fire in anger is almost non-existant or something very wrong has happened?
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After a certain level, yes. But colonels and such still see action.
To further my comment to our anonymous war-hero: there were a lot of lousy, little, nasty operations in the 80s and 90s that didn't make much press, that still killed and wounded some of us that were in them. But just because you didn't hear of it doesn't mean that anyone pinning on a star who you don't think saw combat is a "POG."
I don't know if Amos was in any of them. I highly doubt it. He's a lousy Commandant. But I wouldn't rule out him seeing action.
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Nothing sez the USMC folks that wanted the paper couldn't subscribe to it; then if delivery was suspended, there would have to be an investigation since mail tampering is a felony.....
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
WASHINGTON -- Secretary of State John Kerry vowed Friday that the United States would defend Japan against attack, even in conflicts involving islands claimed by China and Taiwan, as tensions continue to boil between the Asian powers.
The Muslim convert father of the 12-year-old girl at the center of a child sex case following her "marriage" to a 26-year-old foreigner admitted his unhappiness at their union, but said "it was not my decision". The fifth-generation Australian, who allowed the pair to be married by an imam in his home on January 12, now says he fears she may "die" from a broken heart.
[Bangla Daily Star] NASA -- building on successful partnerships with private companies to resupply the International Space Station -- is now looking to private entrepreneurs to help exploit resources on the moon.
