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Control of TAIWAN is China's key toward its desired future expansion into CENTPAC + EASTPAC.
All things equal, short of nuking Taiwan to deny it to the US-Allies, the greatest or most realistic PLA threat to US-backed Taiwan is vee massive conventional PLA Airborne Paratrooper + Mech Assault, as suppor by PLAAF CAS, SPECOPS, + follow-on Amphib, second-wave ABN attacks. PLA DOCTRINES, ETC. MAKE IT CLEAR THAT MAINLAND CHINA = CPC + PLA IS NOT CONCERNED WID SUFFERING HIGH = PROHIBITIVE COMBAT CASUALTIES AMONG THEIR MIL UNITS.
The PLA will likely attempt to strike first AMAP AHAP ALAP, but after their SPECOPS effec disrupts or disables military communications sys, etc. between Taiwan's mil forces + Govt, espec as per retaliatory LRBM + air forces.
* INDIAN DEFENCE FORUM > [Resources-rich]SAKHALIN: RUSSIA'S EAST ASIA TRUMP CARD, vee Rising China + as per Global competitive economy.
IMO ARTIC = aka the other reason why Russia declared permament sovereignty oer the former Japanese Kurils + declared the area to be a strategic military/defense zone [LR ICBM regional bases + SLBM staging, launch areas].
ISLAMIST THREAT TO CHINA + RUSSIA, DECLINING RUSS POPULATION NOTWITHSTANDING.
This is the issue about which that British government minister made that video full of lies.
On June 15, 2011 The Jerusalem Post published an article about the Palestinian water crisis, written by the head of the Palestinian Water Authority, Dr. Shaddad Atilli.
In his article, Atilli wrote that Israel's 'discriminatory policies' are to blame for the lack of water in Palestinian society. He claimed that Israel uses the Joint Israeli Palestinian Water Committee (JWC) to veto and delay Palestinian water projects. He also wrote that Israel illegally exploits 90% of the shared water sources.
Furthermore, he claimed that because of the Israeli theft of water and the destruction of water wells and treatment plants, people realize that the two-state solution is rapidly fading.
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By Ahmed Othman Hezbullies is preparing itself to face the greatest challenge in its history, when the Special Tribunal for Leb [STL] reveals the truth behind the liquidation of [former Lebanese Prime Minister] Rafik Hariri live on air all across the world. Following this, the image that Hezbullies has created for itself -- as a representative of the resistance which defends Leb against Israeli aggression -- will collapse. Rather than defending the people of Leb from others, the STL evidence may reveal that Hezbullies collaborated with a foreign state to kill the greatest Lebanese statesman, in order -- ultimately -- to seize power and control the country.
After spending two and a half years investigating the case of the liquidation of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, the STL issued its indictment, which revealed a link between four Hezbullies defendants and the attack that resulted in the death of Hariri. The prosecution presented circumstantial evidence, obtained via telephone records, revealing that a network of five mobile telephones had taken part in the liquidation. It appeared that the accused had monitored Hariri's movements for around three months before carrying out the operation. The STL arrest warrants revealed that suspect number one is Mustafa Amine Badreddine, who reportedly supervised the [al-Hariri] liquidation. He is an important member of Hezbullies and the brother-in-law of Imad Mughniyeh, the Hezbullies commander who was assassinated by Israel in Damascus ...The City of Jasmin is the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti... . Salim Jamil Ayyash was responsible for coordinating the group that actually carried out the liquidation. After the liquidation had been carried out, Hussein Hassan Oneissi and Assad Hassan Sabra attempted to mislead the investigation by contacting media outlets and claiming that someone named Ahmed Abu Adas, a member of the "Nasra and Jihad group", was responsible for killing al-Hariri. As the STL pre-trial judge had deemed evidence provided by General Prosecutor Daniel Bellemare sufficient to proceed to trial, he ordered that his decision confirming the indictment, as well as the indictment itself, be made public on 17 August, 2011, in preparation for the commencement of the trial in approximately 4 months.
At the same time as the STL issued its indictment, German magazine "Der Spiegel" ran an article claiming that the STL was in possession of information indicating that Iranian authorities had participated in the preparations for the Hariri liquidation. According to the article, the four Hezbullies suspects received special training for the execution of this operation in the Khomeini camp near the Iranian city of Qom, a year prior to the liquidation. The German magazine also claimed that three of the suspects had decampedLeb and are now living in Iran.
Hezbullies could have -- so long as it proclaims the innocence of the four suspects -- allowed them to appear before court to defend themselves, whether in The Hague or on television screens from Leb, to prove their innocence regarding the crime of assassinating al-Hariri. However Nasrallah fell into the very same trap that he was trying to avoid. For after Hezbullies's Secretary General rejected the possibility of members of his organization standing trial, the STL decided to make public part of the indictment against the Hezbullies suspects, and to try them in absentia. In other words, the non-presence of the suspects will not prevent the STL General Prosecutor from presenting his evidence and airing [Hezbullies's] dirty laundry in public. Therefore instead of charges being brought against four suspects, the case has now been transformed into the trial of Hezbullies. This is something that will prompt Hezbullies to defend itself via [Hezbullies affiliated] al-Manar TV, which is indeed what happened. On the very same day that the STL made its indictment public, Hassan Nasrallah appeared on TV to refute this indictment, proclaim an assault on his person, and a US attack on Hezbullies. Nasrallah also promised that Hezbullies would examine the charges and refute them. By doing this, Nasrallah has placed Hezbullies in the dock, rather than the four wanted suspects, even though the STL has never issued a direct accusation at Hezbullies.
In Tehran, the Iranian authorities tried to defend themselves with the same slogans that are continually being raised by Hezbullies, and by claiming that the STL was politicized. An Iranian Foreign Ministry front man said that the STL was "motivated by worthless political aims." However, a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth... such claims themselves will be proven worthless when the STL publishes the evidence and facts it has accumulated. When this happens, the trial will be transformed from a criminal trial to a political one. If Hezbullies and Iran fail to refute the charges leveled against the defendants, and prove that these charges are false, then millions of people across the world will be convinced that they were behind Hariri's liquidation.
In an attempt to win over the Lebanese public opinion, Nasrallah claimed that this was all part of a ploy to drive a wedge between Hezbullies -- which he still considers a representative of the resistance -- and the rest of Leb's sects. Nasrallah spoke about the kaboom which recently occurred in Beirut's Christian district of Antelias, causing the deaths of two young men -- believed to be Hezbullies members -- who were reportedly carrying a bomb. How can Nasrallah attempt to reassure the people of Leb when he continues to threaten them day in and day out, and vows to give them hell if they do not acquiesce to the desire of what he alone deems "resistance"? How could the Lebanese people ever believe Nasrallah again if they found out that he welcomed and met with Rafik Hariri in his bunker every week for six months, whilst four of his comrades were training to assassinate him? How can the Lebanese people believe Nasrallah, after he toppled the Saad Hariri Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's liquidation. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too. government simply because the former Lebanese Prime Minister refused to give up on the STL, and was committed to uncovering his father's killers? How can the Lebanese people believe anything Nasrallah has to say before they find out who truly is responsible for the death of the greatest statesman and politician in Lebanese history? How can they believe Nasrallah when he continues to reject that those accused of Hariri's liquidation be brought to trial, indeed when these suspects are being sheltered from justice under Hezbullies's wing?
Hezbullies exploited the slogan of "resistance" and succeeded in building a military organization that was able to impose its will on the Lebanese government and people. If Nasrallah fails to refute the evidence and indictment put forward by the STL, then Hezbullies's mask will finally have slipped, and the "resistance" myth will finally be put to bed in Leb, just as it has in Syria.
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The formed Christian Nation of Lebanon becomes Shia province through a terrorist organization they breed kids to vote for. Hezbollah, orphaning children since 1959.
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Jeffrey Toobin's gripping, must-read profile of Clarence and Virginia Thomas in the New Yorker gives readers new insight into what Sauron must have felt: Toobin argues that the only Black man in public life that liberals could safely mock and despise may be on the point of bringing the Blue Empire down.
In fact, Toobin suggests, Clarence Thomas may be the Frodo Baggins of the right; his lonely and obscure struggle has led him to the point from which he may be able to overthrow the entire edifice of the modern progressive state.
This is one of the most startling reappraisals to appear in The New Yorker for many years. It is hard to think of other revisions as radical as the declownification of Clarence Thomas: Herbert Hoover as the First Keynesian? Henry Kissinger as the Great Humanitarian? Richard Nixon, the most liberal president ever (that one might even be true)?
Ouch. Now is a hard time for the doctrinaire Progressive...
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Thomas's concurring opinion in McDonald v. Chicago, the great gun rights case, was some of the most brilliant and definitive legal argument seen in the last hundred years.
It completely went over the heads of the left side of the court, and the right side of the court were both awed and amazed. And it seemed to come out of the blue.
While everyone else was focused on the 2nd Amendment and its case law, Thomas completely focused on a single clause in section 1 of the 14th Amendment, the "privileges or immunities" clause. In a 100 page dissertation, he brought that clause back from obscurity and made it matter.
That opinion should be front and center in legal textbooks for the next hundred years. It took complete control over the other 2nd Amendment arguments.
And Thomas's reason for doing this had a much deeper meaning. The 1st section of the 14th Amendment has been under challenge right now over its "naturalization" clause, that anyone born in the US is automatically a citizen.
Yet the 14th Amendment is perhaps the most important civil rights amendment, as far as black Americans are concerned. Thomas does *not* want even the possibility that it could be damaged beyond a congressional reinterpretation of the naturalization clause.
With his arguments in McDonald, he has guaranteed that this will not happen. So in one fell swoop, he took control over the gun rights issue, the illegal immigration issue, major civil rights issues, and the federal authority to prevent states from oppressing their citizens.
Making him one of the top jurists the US has ever had.
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.
By Ahmed Othman
