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And CHINA + PLA have no qualms about hitting wid "Bolt-from-the-Blue Preemptive strikes, nor about suffering massive cambat casualties.
IMO any "Sino-American military conflict" over Taiwan as indic in the Artic must includ or give due consideration to China's desire for unchallenged strategic acccess for the PLA in both China Seas, or in the East China Sea vee Japan + SOKOR, espec as per China's historical rival for Pan-Asia/East Asia #1 JAPAN.
* MANILA TIMES > OBAMA: "BOLD STEPS" NEEDED TO STOP [Chinese island] RECLAMATIONS.
* RELATED MANILA BULLETIN: OBAMA CALLS ON CHINA TO HALT ISLAND RECLAMATIONS, + any New Contruction + any attempt or effort by China to "militarize" the islands.
* FYI GLOBALNATION.PH > RUSSIA WANTS TRADE, MILITARY DEFENCE PACT WID THE PHILIPPINES.
IMO read, PUTIN/RUSSIA CONCERNED ABOUT CHINA + ISIS THREAT TO PH = EAST ASIA.
Besides the USN, "look whom else may coming to dinner" at SUBIC BAY [+ Can Ranh Bay, VN in prior].
Where CHINA-VS-US ASIA-PACIFIC RIVALRY, is concerned, not unlike Rising Iran + ISIS China must now thread carefully wid Darth Vlad = Russia deciding to enter or intervene in the mix.
Which may explain, in part, + not to my surprise, at China's new angst first agz POTUS Obama at APeC, + now agz JAPAN at APEC.
* GLOBALNATION.PH > CHINA WARNS VS [US-led] FREE TRADE PACTS.
* BREAKING NEWS > [China Daily = Twittter] [China warns agz] OBAMA STIRRING SCS TENSIONS, espec as per trying to turn ASEAN Nations agz China.
* SAME > CHINA SLAMS JAPAN'S SHINZO ABE FOR ALLEGED "GROUNDLESS REMARKS" IN CRITICIZING SCS BUILDING.
Nippon PM Abe accused China of engaging in Expansion agz its neighbors [also read, Imperialism], + for violating International Law [UNCLOS] wid its island reclamations.
As said times before, Beijing ideally would like
to see Tokyo [Japan] leave the US Camp in favor of China.
Again, the scenario or danger is there that Japan + other US Regional Allies may just do so iff a major US-China war threatens in one or both China Seas + Taiwan, + Obama fails to uphold mandated US treaty obligations to same agz China [ISIS?].
Anti-US US OWG Globalist POTUS Obama will COVERTLY OR QUIETLY ACCEPT IT IN THE NAME OF GOOD [US-led Anti-US] OWG-NWO.
"ASIA OR EAST ASIA FOR SAME + [China-led] OWG ASIAN/EAST ASIAN GLOBAL FEDERAL UNION(S)".
* WORLD NEWS > [Yahoo News] CHINA SAYS HAS BEEN SELF-RESTRAINED IN SOUTH CHINA SEA, COULD HAVE TAKEN BACK OTHER ISLANDS | [SCMP] CHINA "HAD RIGHT TO SEIZE BACK [Illegally = Foreign-held] OCCUPIED ISLANDS IN SOUTH CHINA SEA.
* SAME > [Chosun Ilbo] "TEN KOREANS TRIED TO CONTACT [join?] ISIS".
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See BIGNEWSNetork > [IANS] 420 [out of 43,00 generally known] POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS ISLAMISTS LIVING IN GERMANY.
German BKA Chief Holger Munch.
* Also from BIGNEWSNETWORK > [Telegraph.UK] ISLAMIC STATE DIVIDES THE WORLD INTO JIHADISTS AND CRUSADERS.
Yeeeuuup.
As per old childhood dreams or vsions of mine, DARE THE FRENCH FOREIGN LEGION WILL ALL THAT STANDS BETWEEN THE FINAL FALL OF FRANCE + ISLAMIC/ISLAMIST INVASION OF THE UK???
The Hard Boyz succeeding where Hitler's
"OPERATION SEA LION" + "BATTLE OF BRITAIN" [Blitz] did NOT???
As a reminder,
[ 1960's-1970's = 2014 TOM CRUISE'S + EMILY BLUNT'S "EDGE OF TOMORROW" here = "The [Counter]Invasion will fail ... every [US-Allied = Non-Muslim World] Soldier that lands on that Beach [Islamist-controlled/dominated Europe] tomorrow will die"!
IN THE MOVIE, THE BASTION OF GLOBAL RESISTANCE UK [USA?] GETS INVADED + CONQUERED BY THE ALIENS AFTER THE DESTRUCTION OF THE INVASION FORCE.
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#3 My current opinion of Europe is the elite of both countries are wracked with shame over their past and Luxumberg should step up and run things.
I'm okay with that, as long as Belgium doesn't try to run things. The EU (Belgian Bureaucrats) is a disaster for ALL of Europe.
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Ebbang: Yes, exactly. The earliest iteration of the EU was born in 1950 as the French plan to keep Germany hamstrung and on a short leash.
Although the EU's "capital" is Brussels, Eurocrats are not actually Belgian - they're from all over the continent. Who, over time, go native and lose their local allegiances, just like our ruling class.
RJ: Luxembourg is too French. If Europe has to be centralized and run by someone, I'd pick the Swiss, who resisted getting dragged into the whole mess to begin with.
[PJ Media] In recent years, Republican presidential candidates -- notably Rick Perry and Ted Cruz -- have called for numerous government departments -- Education, Energy, Commerce, HUD and, of course, the IRS -- to be disbanded. Almost all candidates have urged that the bureaucracies be significantly curtailed. But in this orgy of cost and regulation cutting, one monumental, all-important agency (with a budget approaching $50 billion) curiously has been ignored -- the State Department.
Now I realize we can't legally fire approximately 70,000 or so people -- we would just have to allow them to retire with no replacement -- but it's worth examining exactly what the State Department does and whether it has any efficacy. The answers are not easy to ascertain. The last few years have shown us that prying information out of the State Department (Benghazi, Clinton emails, etc.) is rather like opening an oyster underwater with your tongue. Nothing doing. Their lineup of spokespeople are about as forthcoming as dead bats. The primary purpose of the organization seems to be self-preservation, but self-preservation for what?
If one were to judge by its leaders (secretaries of State), one could say the purpose of the department is to provide a safe space for self-delusion. Hillary Clinton, free from public scrutiny and under sway of her "greasy" eminence Sidney Blumenthal, was able to convince herself the solution for Libya was to rid that benighted nation of strongman Muammar Gaddafi, although Gaddafi was, at that point, the only Arab potentate to make and live by a denuclearization agreement with the U.S. We all know how that turned out.
And then there's John Kerry. The man who now sits bestride the State Department has possibly the most bizarre thought processes of anyone in public life -- or maybe modern life. These were on vivid display in the aftermath of last week's massacre in Paris. Our secretary of State called those ISIS terror acts "absolutely indiscriminate" as opposed to the attacks on Charlie Hebdo that were, in his words, "a sort of particularized focus and perhaps even a legitimacy in terms of -- not a legitimacy, but a rationale that you could attach yourself to somehow and say, okay, they're really angry because of this and that."
Never mind that Kerry omitted -- accidentally or on purpose -- in his windy analysis the attacks on the Hyper Cacher market that were obviously intended to murder Jews (or, as Barack Obama called them, "folks"). What's amazing here is the absolute blindness of the secretary's calling ISIS's acts in Paris "absolutely indiscriminate." ISIS couldn't be more clear about what they do and what their intentions are (as opposed to the State Department, for example). There's nothing indiscriminate about them at all. Earth to John: Every ISIS attack is aimed at one thing and one thing only -- taking over the world for Allah. Get it? (I guess not.)
Which brings us around to the headline question -- should State be disbanded? And, yes, I know -- it can't be really, at least initially. But if a Republican comes into office, it will be among his or hers greatest enemies, an entrenched reactionary power center doing everything it can to oppose the new president's foreign policy.
Most importantly -- no matter what Marie Harf, John Kirby and the rest of those State Department nincompoops tell us -- hello, we're at war!
So here's a suggestion for the next Republican president -- take ninety percent of that $50 billion State Dept. budget and give it to the Pentagon. They'll probably waste sixty percent of that, but at least the other forty percent will be put to good use.
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Moving DoS to NYC makes too much sense, but that would remote it from it's host. It may be helpful when one thinks of DoS to automatically default to Klingon 'action arm.'
Following tragic events in Benghazi, we've not heard from him, but I would defer further questions regarding The Department of State to the Chief of Station, Tripoli, Libya.
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To be fair, a case can be made for State and the Klingons to liaise on certain things. The problem is that both Langley and the Foggy Bottom Home for the Ethically Challenged have become too cozy with the Executive branch.
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So here's a suggestion for the next Republican president -- take ninety percent of that $50 billion State Dept. budget and give it to the Pentagon. I'd add to that suggestion that the next Republican President should arrest a large number of people for hampering a Congressional investigation (same with the IRS).
If there is no penalty for illegal activity we'll see more of that activity. We don't need weaponized bureaucracies.
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The problem is that both Langley and the Foggy Bottom Home for the Ethically Challenged have become too cozy with the Executive branch.
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Indeed true! But they are the king makers, and the king is well of aware of where his power and ultimate protection comes.
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