My Opera
Too good to be true? Or is it too somple to be true?
Saturday, March 27, 2010 11:25:17 AM
Here is the post taken from the blog conducted by Dmitriy Orlov who resides in Boston and has his vision of what is going on in the US^
Corn Madness
Another guest post. Translated from the Russian by Your Humble Narrator. It's a letter sent in by one young, once optimistic Russian who finds himself marooned in some blighted Boston exurb in southern New Hampshire.
[Update: this post was picked up by LATOC where there is a separate, quite lively discussion thread for it.]
[Update: By popular demand, here's the Russian original. Those who thought I made it up, you may hang your heads in shame now.]
[Update: It just keeps coming. Linked from SteveQuayle.com (big spike in traffic); large discussion thread on The Democratic Underground.]
Dear Dmitry,
I hope you don't mind that this is in Russian. I think that this way I can be more completely honest. I am a relatively recent graduate of one of the many faceless post-Soviet institutions of higher learning, with a degree in philosophy. Last year I moved to the USA and married an American woman.
The question of when the modern capitalist system is going to collapse has interested me since my student years, and I have approached it from various directions: from the commonplace conspiracy theories to the serious works of Oswald Spengler and Noam Chomsky. Unfortunately, I still can't fathom what it is that is keeping this system going.
My wife is a very pleasant woman, but a typical white conservative American. Whenever any political question comes up, she starts ranting about the Constitution and calling herself a libertarian conservative and a constitutionalist. I used to think that she is well-educated and understands what she is talking about. In fact, she is the one who introduced me to the US, and I once believed everything she told me about it. But as I found out later, she understands nothing about politics, and just repeats various bits of populist nonsense spouted by Severin, O'Reilly, Limbaugh and other mass media clowns. Well, I am not going to try to prove to my wife that she is wrong on a subject that I don't quite understand myself. After all, she is a good wife. And so I try to steer clear of any political questions when I am with the family, although I do not always succeed. Perhaps if I had a copy of your book, it would help me explain myself to her better, but our family was one of the first to be flattened by the real estate market collapse. My wife went bankrupt, lost her bank account, house, job and the rest a while before I came here, and so we can't buy anything online.
In the talk you gave at the conference in Ireland you mentioned that there are certain regions of the US where the common people only eat garbage food from places like Walmart, which consists of artificial colors and flavors and corn, and that such a diet makes them "a little bit crazy." To my utter disappointment, I have to entirely agree with you. Various witty Russian commentators love to heap ridicule on the "dumb Americans" and on the USA as a generally stupid country. But if they spent a bit of time living here and paid closer attention, they would realize that it is not the low cultural level that distinguishes Americans from, say, Russians: both are, on average, quite beastly. But even when I've visited here before, as a student, my first impression was of a country that is full of madmen, ranging from somewhat mentally competent to total lunatics. And the further south I traveled, the more obvious this became. At first I even marveled at this, thinking, look at how intoxicating the spirit of liberty can be! But now I understand that this is a catastrophe, that American society is brainwashed and alienated in the extreme, and that all that's left for Americans to do is to play each other for the suckers that they have become.
Unfortunately, I feel the pernicious influence of all this on my own family right here and now. You don't have to be a brilliant visionary to realize that in the current situation all these endless suburbs, built on the North American model, are slowly but surely turning into mass graves for the millions of former members of the middle class. Those that do not turn into mass graves will become nature preserves - stocked with wild animals that were once human. My family is turning feral under my very eyes. Lack of resources has forced us to live according to the Soviet model - three generations under one roof. There are six of us, of which only one works, who is, consequently, exasperated and embittered. The rest of the household is gradually going insane from idleness and boredom. The television is never turned off. The female side of the family has been sucked into social networks and associated toys. Everyone is cultivating their own special psychosis, and periodically turns vicious. In these suburbs, a person without a car is as if without legs, and joblessness does not allow any of us to earn money for gas, and so the house is almost completely isolated from the outside world. The only information that seeps in comes from the lying mass media. And I understand that millions of families throughout America live this way! This is how people turn into "teabaggers," while their children join street gangs.
For me, as for you, this is the second collapse. You had left USSR before it happened, while I was there to observe it as a child. I saw what happened when people were finally told that they were being had for seventy-odd years, and were offered a candy bar as consolation. Now, after all this, Russian society is finished. It grieves me to see the faces of Americans, who still believe something and wave their Constitution about, and to know that the same thing is about to happen to them. I think that the model which you have proposed will allow us to confront and to survive this collapse with dignity.
Yevgeny
New Hamshire
http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2010/03/corn-madness.html
Corn Madness
Another guest post. Translated from the Russian by Your Humble Narrator. It's a letter sent in by one young, once optimistic Russian who finds himself marooned in some blighted Boston exurb in southern New Hampshire.
[Update: this post was picked up by LATOC where there is a separate, quite lively discussion thread for it.]
[Update: By popular demand, here's the Russian original. Those who thought I made it up, you may hang your heads in shame now.]
[Update: It just keeps coming. Linked from SteveQuayle.com (big spike in traffic); large discussion thread on The Democratic Underground.]
Dear Dmitry,
I hope you don't mind that this is in Russian. I think that this way I can be more completely honest. I am a relatively recent graduate of one of the many faceless post-Soviet institutions of higher learning, with a degree in philosophy. Last year I moved to the USA and married an American woman.
The question of when the modern capitalist system is going to collapse has interested me since my student years, and I have approached it from various directions: from the commonplace conspiracy theories to the serious works of Oswald Spengler and Noam Chomsky. Unfortunately, I still can't fathom what it is that is keeping this system going.
My wife is a very pleasant woman, but a typical white conservative American. Whenever any political question comes up, she starts ranting about the Constitution and calling herself a libertarian conservative and a constitutionalist. I used to think that she is well-educated and understands what she is talking about. In fact, she is the one who introduced me to the US, and I once believed everything she told me about it. But as I found out later, she understands nothing about politics, and just repeats various bits of populist nonsense spouted by Severin, O'Reilly, Limbaugh and other mass media clowns. Well, I am not going to try to prove to my wife that she is wrong on a subject that I don't quite understand myself. After all, she is a good wife. And so I try to steer clear of any political questions when I am with the family, although I do not always succeed. Perhaps if I had a copy of your book, it would help me explain myself to her better, but our family was one of the first to be flattened by the real estate market collapse. My wife went bankrupt, lost her bank account, house, job and the rest a while before I came here, and so we can't buy anything online.
In the talk you gave at the conference in Ireland you mentioned that there are certain regions of the US where the common people only eat garbage food from places like Walmart, which consists of artificial colors and flavors and corn, and that such a diet makes them "a little bit crazy." To my utter disappointment, I have to entirely agree with you. Various witty Russian commentators love to heap ridicule on the "dumb Americans" and on the USA as a generally stupid country. But if they spent a bit of time living here and paid closer attention, they would realize that it is not the low cultural level that distinguishes Americans from, say, Russians: both are, on average, quite beastly. But even when I've visited here before, as a student, my first impression was of a country that is full of madmen, ranging from somewhat mentally competent to total lunatics. And the further south I traveled, the more obvious this became. At first I even marveled at this, thinking, look at how intoxicating the spirit of liberty can be! But now I understand that this is a catastrophe, that American society is brainwashed and alienated in the extreme, and that all that's left for Americans to do is to play each other for the suckers that they have become.
Unfortunately, I feel the pernicious influence of all this on my own family right here and now. You don't have to be a brilliant visionary to realize that in the current situation all these endless suburbs, built on the North American model, are slowly but surely turning into mass graves for the millions of former members of the middle class. Those that do not turn into mass graves will become nature preserves - stocked with wild animals that were once human. My family is turning feral under my very eyes. Lack of resources has forced us to live according to the Soviet model - three generations under one roof. There are six of us, of which only one works, who is, consequently, exasperated and embittered. The rest of the household is gradually going insane from idleness and boredom. The television is never turned off. The female side of the family has been sucked into social networks and associated toys. Everyone is cultivating their own special psychosis, and periodically turns vicious. In these suburbs, a person without a car is as if without legs, and joblessness does not allow any of us to earn money for gas, and so the house is almost completely isolated from the outside world. The only information that seeps in comes from the lying mass media. And I understand that millions of families throughout America live this way! This is how people turn into "teabaggers," while their children join street gangs.
For me, as for you, this is the second collapse. You had left USSR before it happened, while I was there to observe it as a child. I saw what happened when people were finally told that they were being had for seventy-odd years, and were offered a candy bar as consolation. Now, after all this, Russian society is finished. It grieves me to see the faces of Americans, who still believe something and wave their Constitution about, and to know that the same thing is about to happen to them. I think that the model which you have proposed will allow us to confront and to survive this collapse with dignity.
Yevgeny
New Hamshire
http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2010/03/corn-madness.html
When the waves roll out to sea or when the things progress JUST LIKE THAT...
Saturday, March 13, 2010 4:53:30 PM
You all must have read or heard the story of not releasing a real masterpiece created by Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus "Just Like That". So many versions of that so much anticipated by listeners all over the world song have been released. Different lyrics, altered tunes. So what is the outcome? Let us listen to various versions and make up our minds what is better:1. A very talented amatuer singer, poet from Germany -Andre Berlin has recorded his version of "When the wave roll out to sea". It is amazing- an anthem of The Male Love.
2. Absolutely changed and dis-formed as for me version of Just Like That by Geminies:
3. Tremendously talented electronic arranger and musician from the Netherlands- Matt has recorded several versions of Just Like That:
Saxophone version
Na-na version
4. Two versions Just Like That (Geminies's version) and When the waves roll out to sea by Elaine Paige. Ms. Paige is a very professional songtress, but her latest remarks on Susan Boyle have degraded her image of a person. I think an actress in her early sixties ought not to feear rivalry and competition of younger performers...
When the wave roll out to sea by Elaine Paige
5. And at last but not at least the version performed by Agnetha and Frida:
Now it's up to you to decide which version is the best.
What does the future have in store for us?
Saturday, March 13, 2010 3:30:45 PM
Interview — Radio New Zealand
Sunday Morning with Chris Laidlaw
Russian-born and now resident in the US, Dmitry Orlov has a theory that the United States is heading for collapse just as the Soviet Union did — and for the same reasons: a severe and chronic shortfall in the production of crude oil, a severe and worsening foreign trade deficit, a runaway military budget, and ballooning foreign debt. He talks to Chris Laidlaw about what he calls ‘The Superpower Collapse Soup’.
At the end of the interview, I misspoke when Chris basically asked me whether I was pushing Green agenda (NZ Green party polls in the single digits). I should by now be used to interviewers' attempts to pigeonhole me and marginalize my opinions. What I should have said is this:
Any resemblance between what I might advocate and a political agenda (Green or otherwise) is purely coincidental. Green politics is still politics, and politics of any stripe has precious little to offer when it comes to surviving collapse. Politics is at best a distraction, and has the potential to make a bad situation much worse. In the aftermath of a collapse, politics can lead to civil war, ethnic cleansing and genocide. I am particularly opposed to the attempt to coerce people into a one-dimensional "political spectrum."
On the other hand, Phillip Adams of Radio Australia actually called me an anarchist (but was kind enough to cut that bit out of the program prior to broadcast). The NZ interview was broadcast live. Oh well.
Podcast is available here.
Source: http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2009/11/interview-radio-new-zealand.html
Sunday Morning with Chris Laidlaw
Russian-born and now resident in the US, Dmitry Orlov has a theory that the United States is heading for collapse just as the Soviet Union did — and for the same reasons: a severe and chronic shortfall in the production of crude oil, a severe and worsening foreign trade deficit, a runaway military budget, and ballooning foreign debt. He talks to Chris Laidlaw about what he calls ‘The Superpower Collapse Soup’.
At the end of the interview, I misspoke when Chris basically asked me whether I was pushing Green agenda (NZ Green party polls in the single digits). I should by now be used to interviewers' attempts to pigeonhole me and marginalize my opinions. What I should have said is this:Any resemblance between what I might advocate and a political agenda (Green or otherwise) is purely coincidental. Green politics is still politics, and politics of any stripe has precious little to offer when it comes to surviving collapse. Politics is at best a distraction, and has the potential to make a bad situation much worse. In the aftermath of a collapse, politics can lead to civil war, ethnic cleansing and genocide. I am particularly opposed to the attempt to coerce people into a one-dimensional "political spectrum."
On the other hand, Phillip Adams of Radio Australia actually called me an anarchist (but was kind enough to cut that bit out of the program prior to broadcast). The NZ interview was broadcast live. Oh well.
Podcast is available here.
Source: http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2009/11/interview-radio-new-zealand.html
Monkey with a buzz-saw.U.S. Tightens Missile Shield Encirclement Of China And Russia
Saturday, March 13, 2010 3:17:52 PM
So far this year the United States has succeeded in inflaming tensions with China and indefinitely holding up a new strategic arms reduction treaty with Russia through its relentless pursuit of global interceptor missile deployments.
On January 29 the White House confirmed the completion of a nearly $6.5 billion weapons transfer to Taiwan which includes 200 advanced Patriot anti-ballistic missiles. Earlier in the same month it was reported that Washington is also to provide Taiwan with eight frigates which Taipei intends to equip with the Aegis Combat System that includes the capacity for ship-based Standard Missile-3 interceptors.
The Aegis sea-based component of the expanding U.S. interceptor missile system already includes Japan, South Korea and Australia, and with Taiwan added China would be justified in being apprehensive.
On February 28 the U.S. House and Senate foreign affairs committees permitted the “sale to Taiwan of missiles, helicopters and ships valued at about $6.4 billion” despite weeks of protests from China. “The U.S. Defense Department wants to sell Taiwan the most advanced Patriot anti-missile system….The system, valued at $2.8 billion, would add to Taiwan’s network of 22 missile sites around the country….” [1]
Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Qin Gang recently stated “The responsibility for the current difficulties in China-U.S. relations [belongs] completely to the U.S. side” for failing to recognize and respect China’s “core interests.” [2]If the proposed placement of U.S. missile shield components in Poland, the Czech Republic, Japan, Australia, South Korea, Alaska and elsewhere were explained by alleged missile threats emanating from Iran and North Korea, the transfer of U.S. Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) missiles to Taiwan – and, as was revealed in January, 35 miles from Russian territory in Poland – represents the crossing of a new threshold. The Patriots in Taiwan and Poland and the land- and sea-based missiles that will follow them are intended not against putative “rogue states” but against two major nuclear powers, China and Russia.
The PAC-3, “one of the most comprehensive upgrade programs ever undertaken on an American weapon system,” [3] is in theory a strictly defensive anti-ballistic missile system, targeting cruise and tactical ballistic missiles. However, it has seven times the range of its PAC-2 predecessor and with plans for a yet further major upgrade, the Missile Segment Enhancement, its operational capability will be doubled again. With a future range of some 300 kilometers, the PAC-3 would be able to intercept and destroy missiles over Chinese and Russian territory.
The English-language government newspaper China Daily published an article on February 22 called “China circled by chain of US anti-missile systems,” which observed that “Quite a few military experts have noted that Washington’s latest proposed weapon deal with Taiwan is the key part of a US strategic encirclement of China in the East Asian region, and that the missiles could soon have a footprint that extends from Japan to the Republic of Korea and Taiwan.” [4]
The article cites a Chinese air force colonel and military strategist as contending that “China is in a crescent-shaped ring of encirclement. The ring begins in Japan, stretches through nations in the South China Sea to India, and ends in Afghanistan. Washington’s deployment of anti-missile systems around China’s periphery forms a crescent-shaped encirclement.”
Regular Pentagon military exercises in Mongolia, the Philippines, South Korea, Thailand and Cambodia as well as solidification of military ties with the nations of the Indian subcontinent – Pakistan, India and Bangladesh – are further cause for concern in Beijing.
The China Daily feature also quoted an expert in military affairs at the Institute of Political Science and Law as saying “The US anti-missile system in China’s neighborhood is a replica of its [the U.S.'s] strategy in Eastern Europe against Russia. The Obama administration began to plan for such a system around China after its project in Eastern Europe got suspended.”
In fact the current U.S. administration has by no means abandoned plans to surround Russia as well as China with a ring of interceptor missile installations and naval deployments.
Last month’s revelations that Washington is going to station land-based interceptors in Bulgaria and Romania were followed by a report that in addition to the Patriot missile batteries that will be set up in eastern Poland next month “The US is still looking to build missile silos in northern Poland” and, even more alarming, “The US is also interested in building longer-range missile silos near the Poland-Kaliningrad border. These would be capable of shooting down missiles from as far as 5,500 kilometers away….” [5]
The distance between the capitals of Poland and Iran is less than 4,000 kilometers, so American missiles with a range of 5,500 kilometers are designed for other purposes. They could take in a broad stretch of Russia.
The above-cited Chinese feature noted in addition that “the ring encircling China can also be expanded at any time in other directions….Washington is hoping to sell India and other Southeast Asian countries the Patriot Advanced Capability (PAC)-3 missile defense system.”
The U.S. has had Patriot interceptor missiles deployed in Japan, South Korea and in Taiwan even before the planned delivery of 200 more to the third state.
“Analysts say that China is closely monitoring US-India missile defense cooperation since any integration of India into the US global missile defense system would profoundly affect China’s security.” [6]
On February 24 Russian Lieutenant General Yevgeny Buzhinsky was paraphrased by one of his nation’s main news agencies as stating “China could strengthen its nuclear capability in response to U.S. global missile defense plans.”
Indicative of what reaction U.S. missile shield deployments in China’s neighborhood could provoke, he said: “At present, China has a very limited nuclear potential, but my recent contacts with Chinese military representatives indicate that if the United States deploys a global missile defense system, in particular in the Far East, China will build up its offensive capability.” [7]
In response to U.S. insistence on supplying Taiwan with hundreds of Patriot missiles, Blackhawk helicopters and Harpoon missiles, on February 23 the Pentagon announced that China had delivered on its pledge to postpone military contacts with Washington by canceling scheduled exchanges, including “a visit by Adm. Robert F. Willard, commander of U.S. Pacific Command, and visits to the U.S. by China’s chief of the general staff, Chen Bingde, and a Chinese regional commander.” [8]
A Russian commentary on March 2 placed the developments in stark perspective. “The differences between the USA and China have gone so far that some time ago Beijing announced that all contacts with Washington in this field would be stopped….The visit to China by Pentagon Chief Robert Gates, which was set for the first half of this year, is also put into question. Besides, bilateral consultations on strategic security were also delayed on Beijing’s initiative.” [9]
Another analysis from the same country added a historical dimension to the burgeoning crisis in U.S.-China relations.
“This winter has been a cold one for China-US relations. So many serious disagreements between the two countries have not surfaced simultaneously for decades….In the past China and the US avoided taking harsh measures against each other serially, but evidently things have changed beyond recognition over the past several months.” [10]
As mentioned above, the U.S. is implementing plans to replicate the interceptor encirclement of Russia in regards to China. China’s sense of alarm and its government’s response, then, can be expected to parallel those of Russia.
In late February Polish President Lech Kaczynski ratified a Status of Forces Agreement for American troops to be based at the Patriot missile battery near Russia’s Kaliningrad district.
All American and NATO claims to the contrary, “Poland’s former Defense Minister Radoslaw Sikorski and the Polish president himself earlier admitted that they are not concerned about threats from Iran, but they are interested in establishing an ‘American umbrella’ above Poland, thus trying to show that they see Russia as an aggressor and a threat to Poland.”
“According to the agreement, about 100 American soldiers will service up to eight US Patriot missile launchers” [11] in an installation that “will be equipped with elements allowing it to be integrated with the Polish defense system.” [12]
Early last month General Nikolai Makarov, chief of Russia’s General Staff, warned that American interceptor missile plans jeopardize his nation’s national security and have sabotaged the finalization of a successor to the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), which has been in limbo since December 5.
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=17948
Modern vision of how to be a real gentleman. Dueling through women
Friday, March 12, 2010 7:15:29 PM
They say that approximately a century ago noble men used to duel through noble ladies.
Have you not ever seen this situation like that:
Two gentlemen are dueling. One of them is shooting through the lady, the second one through the...tree...
Have you not ever seen this situation like that:
Two gentlemen are dueling. One of them is shooting through the lady, the second one through the...tree...
Original or remake?
Friday, March 12, 2010 7:07:33 PM
Have you ever thought that some remakes are better than the original stuff? For example "You are always on my mind' resung by Pet Shop Boys seem to have outperformed Presley. What about Madonna? Has she succeeded in remaking "Like an Angel Passing Through My Room"? I deliberately will not express my viewpoint so as I am interested in knowing what other folks think of it.
1. Madonna's version of "Like an angel passing through my room"
madonna_-_like_an_angel_passing_through_my_room.mp3
2.An original version by ABBA, leading vocal by Frida
abba_-_like_an_angel_passing_through_my_room.mp3
1. Madonna's version of "Like an angel passing through my room"
madonna_-_like_an_angel_passing_through_my_room.mp3
2.An original version by ABBA, leading vocal by Frida
abba_-_like_an_angel_passing_through_my_room.mp3
To believe or not to believe. That is the question
Friday, March 12, 2010 6:49:51 PM
Some mysterious Sister Sorcha Faal goes on frightening us with shocking information and God only knows whether these data can be trusted. At any rate, reading this information makes me tremble.
Russia Reports Thousands Of Chinese Troops Have ‘Gone Missing” In US
Russia’s Foreign Military Intelligence Directorate (GRU) in its end of year report on the capabilities of other major Global powers that could possibly threaten the Motherland are shockingly reporting today that “between 4,500 to 5,000” Chinese People's Armed Police, and Second and Third Department Forces have been “secreted” this past year (2009) into the United States for “purposes as yet unknown”.
These Chinese forces are all a part of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) which is the unified military organization of all land, sea, and air forces of the People's (Communist) Republic of China and is the largest military force in the World.
The People's Armed Police Force (CPAP) is a paramilitary force of nearly 700,000 troops primarily responsible for civilian policing and fire rescue duties in the People's Republic of China. CPAP border security forces also guard China's land and sea borders, as well as its ports and airports, and were given, for the first time in their history, the “statutory authority to respond to riots, terrorist attacks or other emergencies” in August, 2009.
The Third Department of China’s General Staff Headquarters is responsible for monitoring the telecommunications of foreign armies and producing finished intelligence based on the military information collected and maintains the most extensive SIGINT network of all the countries in the Asia-Pacific region, including the United States. The PLA Foreign Language Institute at Luoyang also comes under the Third Department of the General Staff Department and is responsible for training foreign language cadres for the monitoring of foreign military intelligence.
The Second Department of China’s General Staff Headquarters is responsible for collecting military information. Activities include military attaches at Chinese embassies abroad, clandestine special agents sent to foreign countries to collect military information, and the analysis of information publicly published in foreign countries. The GRU states in these reports that The Second Department are “most assuredly” in command of both CPAP and Third Department forces currently operating in the United States.
To the ability of China to secret such large numbers of military forces into the United States these reports state would be (literally) a “cake walk” as this Communist Nation (unbelievably) controls two of the Americans largest port facilities through their China Ocean Shipping Company (COSCO), the merchant marine for the People's Liberation Army, located in Long Beach, California and Boston, Massachusetts.
Important to note is that Russia had previously rejected the notion of China controlling any ports in the Motherland as being “incompatible” with its National security and added on economic grounds “It doesn't make sense to assist natural competitors.”
The United States, however, has not thought likewise in their giving to Communist China such power over them, but for a more shocking reason then seems possible, but is nevertheless true, the Chinese have bought off US lawmakers, and as we can read as confirmed by the Washington Post News Service:
“Ten years ago, U.S. lawmakers publicly accused the China Ocean Shipping Co. of being a front for espionage and blocked plans to expand its Long Beach, Calif., port terminal over fears that Chinese spies would use it to snoop on the United States.
By last year, Congress was seeing the state-owned Chinese behemoth in a far kinder light. Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) authored a resolution applauding the company for employing thousands of Americans and helping keep the waters of Alaska clean. Rep. Stephen F. Lynch (D-Mass.) hailed the firm on the House floor, calling its chief executive "a people's ambassador" to the United States after it rescued Boston's port — and thousands of jobs — when a European shipping line moved out.
The congressional about-face illustrates a dramatic increase in China's influence on Capitol Hill, where for years its lobbying muscle never matched its ballooning importance in world affairs.”
As for me, this should not ever come true.
Sister Sorcha Faal
Russia Reports Thousands Of Chinese Troops Have ‘Gone Missing” In US
Russia’s Foreign Military Intelligence Directorate (GRU) in its end of year report on the capabilities of other major Global powers that could possibly threaten the Motherland are shockingly reporting today that “between 4,500 to 5,000” Chinese People's Armed Police, and Second and Third Department Forces have been “secreted” this past year (2009) into the United States for “purposes as yet unknown”.
These Chinese forces are all a part of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) which is the unified military organization of all land, sea, and air forces of the People's (Communist) Republic of China and is the largest military force in the World.
The People's Armed Police Force (CPAP) is a paramilitary force of nearly 700,000 troops primarily responsible for civilian policing and fire rescue duties in the People's Republic of China. CPAP border security forces also guard China's land and sea borders, as well as its ports and airports, and were given, for the first time in their history, the “statutory authority to respond to riots, terrorist attacks or other emergencies” in August, 2009.
The Third Department of China’s General Staff Headquarters is responsible for monitoring the telecommunications of foreign armies and producing finished intelligence based on the military information collected and maintains the most extensive SIGINT network of all the countries in the Asia-Pacific region, including the United States. The PLA Foreign Language Institute at Luoyang also comes under the Third Department of the General Staff Department and is responsible for training foreign language cadres for the monitoring of foreign military intelligence.
The Second Department of China’s General Staff Headquarters is responsible for collecting military information. Activities include military attaches at Chinese embassies abroad, clandestine special agents sent to foreign countries to collect military information, and the analysis of information publicly published in foreign countries. The GRU states in these reports that The Second Department are “most assuredly” in command of both CPAP and Third Department forces currently operating in the United States.
To the ability of China to secret such large numbers of military forces into the United States these reports state would be (literally) a “cake walk” as this Communist Nation (unbelievably) controls two of the Americans largest port facilities through their China Ocean Shipping Company (COSCO), the merchant marine for the People's Liberation Army, located in Long Beach, California and Boston, Massachusetts.
Important to note is that Russia had previously rejected the notion of China controlling any ports in the Motherland as being “incompatible” with its National security and added on economic grounds “It doesn't make sense to assist natural competitors.”
The United States, however, has not thought likewise in their giving to Communist China such power over them, but for a more shocking reason then seems possible, but is nevertheless true, the Chinese have bought off US lawmakers, and as we can read as confirmed by the Washington Post News Service:
“Ten years ago, U.S. lawmakers publicly accused the China Ocean Shipping Co. of being a front for espionage and blocked plans to expand its Long Beach, Calif., port terminal over fears that Chinese spies would use it to snoop on the United States.
By last year, Congress was seeing the state-owned Chinese behemoth in a far kinder light. Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) authored a resolution applauding the company for employing thousands of Americans and helping keep the waters of Alaska clean. Rep. Stephen F. Lynch (D-Mass.) hailed the firm on the House floor, calling its chief executive "a people's ambassador" to the United States after it rescued Boston's port — and thousands of jobs — when a European shipping line moved out.
The congressional about-face illustrates a dramatic increase in China's influence on Capitol Hill, where for years its lobbying muscle never matched its ballooning importance in world affairs.”
As for me, this should not ever come true.
Sister Sorcha Faal
Europe is supposed to be suprised
Friday, March 12, 2010 6:31:32 PM
Petr Nalich to bright us at Eurovision
Petr Nalich represents Russia at the Eurovision contest this year. I wonder what listeners from all around the world think of this song and the way it is performed. Let us appraise it...
Petr Nalich represents Russia at the Eurovision contest this year. I wonder what listeners from all around the world think of this song and the way it is performed. Let us appraise it...
Ancient Egypt. How ancient was it?
Friday, March 12, 2010 6:19:22 PM
I would like to start this blog with the information on the so called ancient civilization of Egypt. I suggest that you should watch the films dedicated to this subject. These films are some kind of investigation of the standard classification of World History. The authors of the films ask some inconvenient questions and we have to ask the same. The films are in Russian.
Some of these ancient (?) buildings seem to be modern replicas and what about dinosaurs only 5-6 thousand years ago?
Part 1 Ancient Egypt. Forbidden History
Part 2 Ancient Egypt. Forbidden History
Some of these ancient (?) buildings seem to be modern replicas and what about dinosaurs only 5-6 thousand years ago?
Part 1 Ancient Egypt. Forbidden History
Part 2 Ancient Egypt. Forbidden History
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