#2
Mr G hello!;
I realize you have more on the ground experience in this area of the world. I'm in agreement with the article. I also have believed that China is a powder keg. The country is so vast with people having so many differences. I can only see problems , they want more of everything and now, and corruption is a major problem as well. I understand that things are changing. I don't think it will go smoothly.
#3
It's not that bad. China is better off now than it ever has been in the history of the world. Some farmers bitching that eminent domain kicked them off their land is not a 'powder keg'. China has several powerful levers with which to keep the country unified.
#4
I don't know if this is a "true" article or not. I do know that the trigger for revolution and civil war in the past is a situation where things are improving BUT not as fast as expectations are rising. So far not too bad but if there should be some sort of shock to the country where the situation takes a turn for the worse then the gap between reality and expectations can rapidly become too large to support and all hell can break loose.
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#5
Thank you Mr. G that information is encouraging.
I hope they are a good influence in the world.
#6
PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > TIME MAGZ > [AQ Leader Abu Yahya-al-Libi] AL QAEDA NAMES CHINA AS ITS BIGGEST ENEMY.
ARTIC = Most Uighurs in West China may not like AL-Qaeda, but at present not many International Govts-States, including Muslim, are lining up to support their cause or agenda.
AND
* SAME > US MILITARY FORCES MAY SHARE BASES WID AUSTRALIA.
* SAME > AMERICA'S SIX BINDING CLAUSES ON INDIA. Alleged de facto US Strategic Control of India via proposed bilateral US-INDIA DEFENSE COOPER, SECURITY PACT.
* WMF > RUSSIA-JAPAN DIPLOMATIC ROW OVER KURILS MAY INDUCE RUSSIA TO ALLOW CHINESE LABOR IMMIGRATION INTO FORMER JAPANESE KURIL ISLANDS AS PART OF RUSSIAN DEV PLANS FOR ITS FAR EAST + SAKHALIN ISLAND.
* WMF > RUSSIA'S "FOUR UNSINKABLE AIRCRAFT CARRIERS": MOSCOW HAS APPOXI 5000 RF MIL TROOPS STATIONED IN FORMER JAPANESE KURILS [ + 10,000 civilian migrants].
* WMF > EXPERTS SUGGEST DIVERTING/DRAWING THE "BOHAI SEA" AS PART OF CHINA' NORTHERN WATER DIVERSION PROJECT TO DEV RELIABLE WATER SOURCES FOR NORTH'S PARCHED DESERTS [North, NW China + Inner Mongolia] + OFFSET GROWING ENVIRONMENTAL DESERTIFICATION.
* WMF > THE US-WEST MUST UNDERSTAND: CHINA MAY BE THE ONLY ONE ABLE TO PREVENT CIVIL WAR IN MYANMAR. LARGE + WEll-ARMED, PRO-CHINA
"UNITED WA STATE ARMY" IS NOT PART OF NEW ANTI-JUNTA ALLIANCE COMPOSED OF SIX ARMED ETHNIC FACTIONS.
* DAILY TIMES.PK > US WORRIED ABOUT RISING TERRORISM IN INDONESIA [US Govt-Agencies closley watching for "signs/hints" of cooper, collusion between mainland Militant Groups, e.g. AL QAEDA, + LOCAL INDONESIAN BAD BOYZ].
#7
OOPSIES, forgot WMF > SOURCES: NEXT NORTH KOREAN NUCLEAR TEST MAY BE FOR HYDROGEN BOMB?
Which in turn is foreboding given various MSM-Net reports that the NOKORS = DPRK may already have 40-kilograms of NOT-MERELY-URANIUM-N-HYDROGEN-BUT-PLUTONIUM PLUTONIUM NUCMATS.
Lest we fergit, PAKISTAN = says ISLAMIST IRAN is being "DA REAL" when it says it doesn't need NUCBOMBS = NUCWEAPS
Read, espec since PAK already has 'em! DPRK???
and
* SAME > THE US-EUROPE [NATO-EU, Russia] MUST UNDERSTAND THAT EAST ASIA REMAINS VERY POTENT, + IS MILITANTLY UNWILLING TO ACCEPT NEW US, EURO DOMINATION OF ORIENTAL ASIA OR NEW WORLD ORDER [OWG-NWO = New "Globalist" Order].
This sets up what could be an ugly fight in which a Tea Party--inflected national Republican Party, encouraged by its strength in the interior states, forces California and New York--now heavily dependent on federal subsidies--to reduce their spending sharply. The coastal giants would no doubt respond by threatening defaults, which could affect the credit standing of the entire country, since many of the bonds are held by foreign investors. The upshot would likely be a high-stakes conflict about free trade, globalization, social class, race, illegal immigration, and public-sector unionism.
#1
It's that little ugly Constitutional Convention clause thingy. Three quarters of the states can legally hammer one quarter if enough grief is raised upon them.
#5
California and New Yorktwo states, deeply in debt, whose wealthy are beneficiaries of the global economy...This geographic division will also pit the heartlands middle class and working class against the well-to-do of New York and California and their political allies in the public-sector unions.
They got themselves into this political and financial mess. Let the wealthy who benefited from this pact with the devil, the politicians, and the public-sector unions hang in the wind. If they are truly the smartest people in the country, they can figure this one out threats to the rest of the country be damned.
#6
The politicans had better not mistkae the mood of the nation outisde CA and a few other spots on the bailout of the public unions and bloated governments in CA and NY. its "F**k 'em, they dug the hole and did not stop digging when we warned them".
I think people realize the lumps we would take in collapsing CA and NY are far less than continuing the pain forever by bailing those people out.
Most of the pain in the latter would be born by us, but most of the pain in the former would be born by the unionists, government workers, CA and NY politicians and coastal elites, and idiots that voted to support them.
#7
Bailouts are not likely to be a one-time deal. It is likely they would be continuing since the CA and NY system would have no incentive to change. The other method would perhaps re-set the CA & NY systems.
#9
There are old fruit inspection stations on the border between AZ and CA, that could be reactivated in a pinch to keep out the CA refugees. And most of us have seen Escape from New York.
#10
The problem with communal cannibalism is that eventually you're the next guy on the plate, particularly when a couple of the big guys show no interest in dieting. I suspect that'll dawn upon enough of the states to realize it's an issue of self preservation.
#12
I did a two part blog article on the coming collapse of California here. There will be a lot of pressure on the GOP to ante up money and kick the can down the road. Ultimately, I feel it will end up like Greece. The Federal government will have to guarantee California's debt, but the state will have to implement severe austerity measures. That will not go over well with the public sector unions. Then it will get real ugly.
#14
Strip CA & NY of Statehood and any voting representation in Congress. Do a forced Territory status on them. They remain in what amounts to receivership until their issues are fixed.
Their entire State and Municipal govts. will be sacked and all administrative functions taken over by outside admins. Their Reps. and Senators get sacked, and replaced by appointees.
All contracts with unions become null and void. That is just the start of what should be inflicted upon them. Oh...restrict any exit of all Calif. citizens while they're in Territory status.
Purge, as in forcibly drive out all illegals in the process. Rinse and repeat as required with other insolvent States. Make it HURT!
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"Oh...restrict any exit of all Calif. citizens while they're in Territory status."
I'd like to see anyone try that.
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#16
Make it HURT!
Y'know, there are places where you can post your sadistic fantasies...
It probably also doesn't help that the project is nuanced and ambiguous. ... it is clearly a statement of something, but it is not completely explicit what this something is. ... This clearly should not cause anyone a problem, yet in the febrile atmosphere of modern America, ambiguity makes space for baroque fears.
Oooooh, look at the writer's extensive vocabulary and be impressed at the implied intelligence.
#2
It's not a mosque, and it's not at Ground Zero only nearby. It's not a "clubhouse for terrorists", as some objectors have called it, nor a work of "triumphalist stealth jihad". It does not "loom" over the "hallowed ground" of the 9/11 attacks, which cannot be seen from its site.
So you say. More taqiyya. The more I see of things the more my view becomes that there are enemies who want to blow us up, those who silently accede to those who want to blow us up, and those who want to impose islamic will on the rest of us one way or another. Islam is a religion that believes in supremacy. Is that not correct?
In 2001, in the 9/11 attacks after hijacked Flight 175 penetrated through a tower of The World Trade Center, part of the plane's landing gear and fuselage came out the north side of the tower and crashed through the roof and two of the floors of the Burlington Coat Factory at 45â47 Park Place, between West Broadway and Church Street, (600 feet (180 meters)) north of the former World Trade Center. The plane parts destroyed three floor beams, and severely compromised the building's internal structure.
It's not at Ground Zero, nor is it 'nearby', it is on Ground Zero according to any reasonable definition. And that is the reason why Rauf want to build his Victory Mosque right there: "Dawah from the rubble."
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