Chinese archeologists have unearthed a large third-century tomb, which they say could be that of Cao Cao, the legendary politician and general famous throughout East Asia for his Machiavellian tactics.
The tomb, discovered in Xigaoxue village near the ancient Chinese city of Anyang, Henan Province, has an epitaph and inscription that appear to refer to Cao Cao, Central China Television said on Sunday.
A Chinese proverb, "speak of Cao Cao and he appears," is the equivalent of "speak of the devil" in English.
Cao Cao was the final chancellor of the Eastern Han dynasty, who went on to form his own state during the political turmoil of the Three Kingdoms period. He died in 220 AD in Luoyang, the capital of the Eastern Han dynasty, and was posthumously named Emperor of the Wei state that he founded.
In Chinese lore, a number of anecdotes tell of Cao Cao's ruthlessness, cunning, and military and political acumen.
The tomb contains the body of a man in his 60s, corresponding to Cao Cao's age at his death, and two women. Although often portrayed as a cruel and merciless tyrant, Cao has also been praised as a brilliant ruler and military genius who treated his subordinates like his family. He was also skilled in poetry and martial arts and authored many war journals.
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Actually they do, it's the parable about killing the goose that lays the golden egg. However, we being a modern advanced civilization choose to ignore the unaltered observation of basic human behavior from some 2,000+ years ago. We're too smart and sophisticated to pay attention to quaint fundamentals.
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The part about the unfunded liabilities is chilling. No one here aside from WaPo's Robert Samuelson even pays any attention to the fact that most of this country's tens of trillions in public pension obligations are way under water.
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Lest we fergit, ISLAM/ISLAMISM > can be ascribed as GOD-FAITH BASED SOCIALISM-GOVTISM;
versus
COMMUNISM > SECULAR, SCIENTIFIC SOCIALISM-GOVTISM
HENCE, WOT > PRE-, POST 9-11 MSM-NET - RADICAL ISLAMIST MILITANT GROUPS repor collude extensively wid COMMUNIST-MAOIST-SOC MILITANT GROUPS. WOT = PRO-US versus ANTI-US OWG-SOCIALIST WORLD ORDER [among other].
Many Netters believe that POTUS Bammer is ANTI-AMERICAN > by that scope, DOES AMERICA = USA STILL WIN OR SURVIVES, ETC. WHEN ANTI-AMERICAN AMERICAN WAGES WAR AGZ AN ANTI-AMERICAN NON/ANTI-AMERICAN???
* "POPCORN" MOMENT > will "THERE IS NO -ISM BUT ISLAM" RADIC ISLAM still be in love wid SECULARISM-HAPPY COMMIE-MAOIST-SOCIALISM once the USA, the mighty USSA = weak USRoA + America = Amerika, goes down for the count???
DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano said that the thwarting of the attempt to blow up the Amsterdam-Detroit flight this week demonstrated that "the system worked."
Asked by CNN's Candy Crowley on "State of the Union" how that could be possible when the young Nigerian who sought to set off the bomb was able to smuggle explosive liquid onto the flight, Napolitano responded: "We're asking the same questions."
Napolitano added that there was "no suggestion that [the bomber] was improperly screened."
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12/27/2009 10:13 Comments ||
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Ditto. The TSA reaction was fairly moronic as well - under new rules, passengers must stay in their seat during the final hour of an international flight.
The bomber stayed in his seat. The guy who STOPPED HIM did not.
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This is perfectly in line with the Obamanation's creed of "First admit no wrong".
This is the typical response of a senior bureaucrat. This is the typical behavior of those without "skin in the game". This is what you can expect of Obamacare.
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More on this lad's father contacting the US Embassy in Lagos and issuing his warning please. An extra helping please....of what the embassy LEGAT (FBI representative) and US Intelligence (USI), ie, Chief of Station did after the contact.
Also a bit more on MI5/MI6 info and data and the UK's refusal to re-issue a visa.
Maybe some sort of 'special internal investigation' needs to be undertaken. Who can we get? No need contacting former FBI/CIA director William Webster however, he's currently busy with the Major Hasan damage control internal investigation.
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Besoeker, it sounds like the result of the father's tattling, the lad's name was put on a list of people to watch. Unfortunately, not enough information turned up in the past six months to move him to a higher risk list. Which seems fair enough, if he spent a good piece of that time incommunicado while he was being trained in a far corner of Yemen rather than swanning around contacting known terror group members. Unknown unknowns, and all that.
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Apparently "the system" includes taking responsibility for ourselves as passengers and jumping on anyone trying to kill us. Otherwise her comment is so breathtakingly stupid that the room should have erupted in uncontrollable laughter. If not, that tells us just how breathtakingly stupid "journalists" are as well.
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Unfortunately, not enough information turned up in the past six months to move him to a higher risk list. TW.
The logic somehow escapes me. Are we to assume that people placed on the "terrorist and potential terrorist watch list" as known or suspected terrorists ....are still eligible to fly on US air carriers?
SPIEGEL: Madame Secretary, in your first testimony to the US Congress as Homeland Security Secretary you never mentioned the word "terrorism." Does Islamist terrorism suddenly no longer pose a threat to your country?
Napolitano: Of course it does. I presume there is always a threat from terrorism. In my speech, although I did not use the word "terrorism," I referred to "man-caused" disasters. That is perhaps only a nuance, but it demonstrates that we want to move away from the politics of fear toward a policy of being prepared for all risks that can occur."
SPIEGEL: This sounds quite different from what we heard from the Bush administration. How will the new anti-terror policy differ from the previous one?
Napolitano: Our policies will be guided by authoritative information. We also have assets at our disposal now that we did not have prior to 9/11. For example, we are much better able to keep track of travellers coming into the US than we were before. The third thing is to work with our international partners and allies to make sure that we are getting information and sharing information in an appropriate and real-time fashion.
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Are we to assume that people placed on the "terrorist and potential terrorist watch list" as known or suspected terrorists ....are still eligible to fly on US air carriers?
Besoeker, I assume that what they got was something along the lines of the father saying to a clerk at the embassy, "Look, I've got a son who was a bit of a religious nutcase as a kid, may have gotten in with the wrong crowd at university in England, and has now disappeared. I'm afraid he might have gotten into jihadi circles." If the lad didn't show up on any lists of contacts, wasn't seen by spies or overhead electronically, how could our guys justify putting him on a No Fly list? At best he was a possible known, as Mr. Rumsfeld might have put it, nothing more.
And remember, the father was a Nigerian big-shot. This could have been a matter of an inappropriate response to a father-son spat -- the embassy clerk would have had no way of knowing until something confirmatory came across the wire. Much like all the false leads the police get when they ask for help in a case.
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The bomber stayed in his seat. The guy who STOPPED HIM did not.
A horrifying thought has occurred to me: What if the goal is to possibly end up with an airplane wreck full of dead people 'because someone tried to stop him'? And at that point we're told, "Don't resist, don't fight, look what happens when we do..."
Mike
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Of course "the system" worked. She got the press release out in time, appeared on the Legacy Media (probably without saying "Muslim" or some other doubleplusungood word), and issued yet another stupid restriction that will do absolutely nothing to prevent another attack.
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And if the 'system' had NOT worked, we wouldn't know it - we would be trying to explain how a bare wire in a fuel tank or a lightning strike or such caused a Christmas tragedy. The very first words from authorities when the plane fell off radar would have been "This is not a terrorist incident. (We have no clue what it IS, but we know it isn't terrorism.)"
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"The system worked"
Translation:
"I still have my job"
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12/27/2009 14:40 Comments ||
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The "system" worked so well, the terrorists tried it again! Reports are coming out, that it is now happening again. Same flight number, even -- Amsterdam to Detroit, etc, etc
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Correction: he People worked, the System still sucked.
However, we pushed the margin of error to the edge of the envelope. You cannot defend yourself against every binary chemical reaction that produces an explosion, toxic substance, or poison gas. You have to go after the potential perps.
Napolitano is surrounded by a human wall of TSA agents, so she is safe.
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Dumb luck and ineptitude by AQ and this spoiled splodadope dupe is what prevented this plane from being blasted out of the sky. The system did not work. DHS/TSA had nothing to do with preventing this. Doesn't give me a lot of confidence in flying or the abilities of our government to prevent aircraft bombings by terrorists. I'd probably feel better if we just armed the passengers to prevent these kinds of incidents [only meant about half facetiously].
So will this terrorist or man made disaster waiting to happen get treated as a common criminal or will he be taken him out and shot post haste as a terrorist enemy of the U.S.A. That will go a long way towards prevention of wannabe boombers in the future--at least this one.
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The system did not work. DHS/TSA had nothing to do with preventing this.
Sorry to point this out JohnQC but you obviously misunderstand that purpose of "the system".
Napaolitano and her ilk, all the way to Zero himself, view "secuity" as a first responder. Their job is not to prevent attacks but to provide political cover after the fact to all the members of the regime.
In that case the system is working. See Ms. Skolaut.
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Look, she probably views the plane flying all those unimportant people around and creating plant-food as the major man created problem, not the bomber.
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Being on the receiving end of DHS Intel and Analysis messages on this at the FOUO/LES level, suffice it to say they were utterly clueless and scrambling to find anything to say. System worked my ass.......
AN 84-year-old Indian politician has resigned after a sex tape was broadcast allegedly showing him in bed with three women. Way to go Gramps To be fair, by the time you're 84 less than three just won't do...
Narayan Dutt Tiwari, the Governor of Andhra Pradesh in south-east India, had maintained his innocence after the sex tape was aired a day ago on the news channel Andhra Jyothi.
He has now has bowed to pressure and resigned, the Indian Express reports.
A statement about his resignation was released today, barely a day after the Governor's office dismissed the sex tape allegedly featuring him having sex in the company of three women as a "tissue of lies".
A one-sentence statement said that Mr Tiwari -- who took charge as Governor on August 19, 2007 -- had submitted his resignation to President Pratibha Patil on "health grounds".
The Indian Congress had called for "verification" of the sex tape the day before but as the chorus of outrage grew louder, with the entire Opposition asking for his recall and a probe into the allegations, the party's options were limited.
It is understood that Indian National Congress president Sonia Gandhi spoke to Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh this morning. A senior Congress leader was asked to contact Mr Tiwari who claimed he was innocent but had to finally give in.
The TV channel which aired the tape said the broadcast was a sting operation facilitated by a "woman broker" who claimed she "supplied women" to the Governor, according to the Indian Express.
She claimed she had been promised a mining lease and when Mr Tiwari reneged on that promise, she decided to "expose" him. "Hell hath no fury...."
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