Competition between the United States and China over control of the
South China Sea took center stage this week as President Obama opened up
Vietnam to greater U.S. arms sales while China’s military intelligence
chief met with a senior Russian general.
Obama announced that the United States is fully lifting a 41-year
arms embargo against Vietnam, which has been locked in a dispute with
China over control of the Paracel Islands.
The closer U.S.-Vietnam defense cooperation will include patrol boats
and training for Vietnam’s coast guard that has been increasingly
challenged in protecting Vietnamese fisherman by Chinese maritime law
enforcement forces.
“Big nations should not bully smaller ones,” Obama said in an indirect reference to China’s maritime disputes in the region.
China’s Communist Party-controlled newspaper Global Times stated in an editorial that ending the arms embargo is part of a U.S. policy to contain China.
In Beijing on Tuesday, China’s most senior military intelligence
official, Adm. Sun Jianguo, held talks with Russia’s deputy chief of the
general staff, Lt. Gen. Sergei Rudskoy. The meeting between the two
military leaders highlights what analysts say is a growing anti-U.S.
alliance between Moscow and Beijing.
The Pentagon had no immediate comment on what weapons will be offered
to Vietnam, a communist state that defeated the United States in the
Vietnam War after taking over South Vietnam in 1975.
Increased U.S. military aid as part of the Pentagon’s Asia maritime
security initiative will total $425 million in military aid over five
years. Hanoi will also be provided with 18 MetalShark 45-foot patrol
boats.
The lifting of the arms embargo, which has been loosened twice in the
past, will provide Vietnam with “greater access to the equipment you
need to improve your security,” the president said.
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/obama-visits-vietnam-as-china-russia-meet/
"... It is only in this way that we can hope to arrive at truth, and fulfill the great responsibility which we hold to God and our country. Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason towards my country, and of an act of disloyalty toward the Majesty of Heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings."....I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!"
Saturday, May 28, 2016
THE LEFTIST HANOI JANE HISTORICAL WANNA BE CAME TO LIGHT AS THE POTUS BHO VISIT THE HANOI AND THE HO CHI MINH CITY OF VIETNAM CLAIMING THAT THE COMMUNIST COUNTRY CAN NOW IMPORT MILITARY ARMS AS THE 41 YEAR OLD EMBARGO IS LIFTED TO COMBAT AGAINST THE CHINESE LAYING CLAIM TO ALL OF THE SOUTH SEA FROM TAIWAN TO THE PHILIPINES AND THE COAST OF VIETNAM
OH NO SHE DIDN'T - HILLARY CLINTON FOR DEMOCRAT FOR POTUS 2016 EMBROILED IN SCANDALS EVEN BEFORE HER PRESIDENCY - WHICH CAN ONLY MEAN IF SHE WINS - CONTROVERSIES TO FOLLOW, JUST LIKE THE POTUS BHO - AS THE EMAIL SCANDAL OF BREAKING STATE DEPARTMENT FEDERAL LAWS COME TO LIGHT
First Deposition Testimony from Clinton Email Discovery Released
The court-ordered discovery to uncover details about former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s email system has produced the first testimony from her top aides. This week we released the deposition transcript of Ambassador Lewis Lukens, former deputy assistant secretary of state and executive director of the State Department’s executive secretariat. The transcript is available here. We deposed Amb. Lukens as part of the discovery granted to Judicial Watch by U.S. District Court Judge Emmet G. Sullivan in response to our Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit involving Clinton’s unsecured, non-government email system ( Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:13-cv-01363)). Lukens testified that he thought it was not unusual that Mrs. Clinton did not ask him to create a State Department email account for her. He testified that he understood that her BlackBerry use was only to “stay in touch with friends and family.” Lukens, according to his testimony, saw Clinton “maybe a half a dozen times” positioned “in the hallway outside the SCIF [Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility] standing there looking at her BlackBerry.” Lukens testified that he saw Mrs. Clinton with her BlackBerry on foreign trips and that her aide Huma Abedin carried around two BlackBerrys. Lukens also testified about his 2009 email exchanges with Cheryl Mills in 2009 in which he offered to set up a separate computer on non-State Department network to allow Mrs. Clinton to check her email: Lukens also testified about his 2009 email exchanges with Cheryl Mills in 2009 in which he offered to set up a separate computer on non-State Department network to allow Mrs. Clinton to check her email:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3434760/posts
The court-ordered discovery to uncover details about former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s email system has produced the first testimony from her top aides. This week we released the deposition transcript of Ambassador Lewis Lukens, former deputy assistant secretary of state and executive director of the State Department’s executive secretariat. The transcript is available here. We deposed Amb. Lukens as part of the discovery granted to Judicial Watch by U.S. District Court Judge Emmet G. Sullivan in response to our Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit involving Clinton’s unsecured, non-government email system ( Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:13-cv-01363)). Lukens testified that he thought it was not unusual that Mrs. Clinton did not ask him to create a State Department email account for her. He testified that he understood that her BlackBerry use was only to “stay in touch with friends and family.” Lukens, according to his testimony, saw Clinton “maybe a half a dozen times” positioned “in the hallway outside the SCIF [Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility] standing there looking at her BlackBerry.” Lukens testified that he saw Mrs. Clinton with her BlackBerry on foreign trips and that her aide Huma Abedin carried around two BlackBerrys. Lukens also testified about his 2009 email exchanges with Cheryl Mills in 2009 in which he offered to set up a separate computer on non-State Department network to allow Mrs. Clinton to check her email: Lukens also testified about his 2009 email exchanges with Cheryl Mills in 2009 in which he offered to set up a separate computer on non-State Department network to allow Mrs. Clinton to check her email:
Q. After your conversation with Ms. Mills, Ms. Mills e-mailed you, and it talks about – I’m sorry, the quality of the e-mail is a little difficult to read, but it says: “Let’s set up the office across the hall for her to use. It needs a phone, et cetera, so she can go across the hall to check her BB,” her BlackBerry. You mentioned that you talked about setting up a computer in her office. Do you know why Ms. Mills seemed to prefer having the computer set up in the office across the hall?
A. This wasn’t for a computer setup; this was to create a space for her to go check her BlackBerry.
Q. Okay. In the Secretary’s office, is that what’s considered a SCIF?
A. The Secretary’s office is in a SCIF, which encompasses a lot more of the seventh floor.
Q. Okay. And the office that’s across the hall is outside that area? A. Correct.Lukens also testified about his idea to set up a separate computer and network for Mrs. Clinton. Cheryl Mills and Lukens discussed the email issue in early 2009:
A. So the crux of the issue was that BlackBerrys and iPhones are not allowed in the Secretary’s office suite, so the question was, how is the Secretary going to be able to check her e-mails if she’s not able to have the BlackBerry at her desk with her.
Q. And so what did you — did you propose a solution at that point?
A. So my proposal was to set up a computer on her desk, a standalone computer, for her to be able to access the Internet to check her e-mails.
*** Q. Do you know if this setup would have been any different from the setup of other employees?
A. Yes, this would have been different.
Q. How would it have been different?
A. My understanding is that most of the employees’ computers in the State Department are connected through the State Department’s OpenNet e-mail system, Internet system.
Q. So this one would have been separate from the OpenNet system?
A. Correct.Ultimately, according to his testimony, the computer was not set up for Mrs. Clinton. Lukens is the first of seven depositions of former Clinton top aides and State Department officials that we have scheduled over the next four weeks. Also to be deposed are Cheryl Mills (her deposition is happening today, in fact) and Huma Abedin, as well as top State Department official Patrick Kennedy, and former State IT employee Bryan Pagliano. In granting the discovery, U.S. District Court Judge Emmet G. Sullivan noted that “based on information learned during discovery, the deposition of Mrs. Clinton may be necessary.” It is noteworthy that this key State Department witness was insistent that he didn’t know Clinton was using non-State.gov emails and computer equipment for government business. It suggests the agency is seeking to distance itself from Mrs. Clinton’s conduct.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3434760/posts
SINCE THE DEMOCRAT POTUS BHO HAS TAKEN OVER THE REIGN OF POWER UNEMPLOYMENT PARTICIPATION HAS SEEN ITS LOWEST WHERE 90 MILLION OF YOU NO LONGER EARN A LIVING - WHILST SO THE DEMOCRAT JOB CREATION IS WITH THE CHINESE AS 100, 000 OF YOU NOW WORK FOR IN THE USA - TAKE FOR INTANCE SMITHFIELD PORK AND MIAMI CONSTRUCTION
In the tiny North Carolina town of Tar Heel, the Smithfield Foods Packing Co., the world’s biggest slaughterhouse that often smells of pig manure, belongs to a giant Chinese meat-processing company.
Hundreds of movie theaters across the country are owned by the Kansas City-based AMC Theatres chain, which reports to China’s richest man.
And in Miami, a luxury condo tower called One Thousand Museum is rising over Biscayne Bay. Its contractor is a Chinese firm, the largest builder in the world’s most populous country.
In a presidential campaign focused on the loss of American jobs, a recent study shows how U.S. jobs are created or preserved under China’s investment boom in the United States.
China has spent more than $100 billion since 2000, buying or making significant investments in 1,900 companies. That flow is accelerating: In the first quarter of this year, Chinese firms had $30 billion in pending or completed deals, according to Stephen Orlins, head of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, a New York-based organization that researches the two countries’ ties.
The Chinese purchasers, many of them state-owned or with close government ties in Beijing, are responsible for almost 100,000 American jobs, according to a recent report by Orlins’ organization and the Rhodium Group, a New York company that provides research on global business trends to U.S. and foreign companies.
One of those jobs is held by Brad Meltzer, president of Plaza Construction Florida, which is building One Thousand Museum, set to open by next spring with a $49 million penthouse and condos starting at $5.7 million.
The Miami-based company’s parent group, Plaza Construction, is headquartered in New York. It’s owned by China Construction America of Jersey City, N.J., a subsidiary of China State Construction Engineering LTD in Beijing. “That investment has offered us dynamic growth opportunities,” Meltzer told McClatchy.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/article80386057.html
Hundreds of movie theaters across the country are owned by the Kansas City-based AMC Theatres chain, which reports to China’s richest man.
And in Miami, a luxury condo tower called One Thousand Museum is rising over Biscayne Bay. Its contractor is a Chinese firm, the largest builder in the world’s most populous country.
In a presidential campaign focused on the loss of American jobs, a recent study shows how U.S. jobs are created or preserved under China’s investment boom in the United States.
China has spent more than $100 billion since 2000, buying or making significant investments in 1,900 companies. That flow is accelerating: In the first quarter of this year, Chinese firms had $30 billion in pending or completed deals, according to Stephen Orlins, head of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, a New York-based organization that researches the two countries’ ties.
One of those jobs is held by Brad Meltzer, president of Plaza Construction Florida, which is building One Thousand Museum, set to open by next spring with a $49 million penthouse and condos starting at $5.7 million.
The Miami-based company’s parent group, Plaza Construction, is headquartered in New York. It’s owned by China Construction America of Jersey City, N.J., a subsidiary of China State Construction Engineering LTD in Beijing. “That investment has offered us dynamic growth opportunities,” Meltzer told McClatchy.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/article80386057.html
GOLDEN RAINBOW A GREAT MBC 2014 KDRAMA OF HUMAN GREED WHERE IF HUMAN GOOD WAS NOT PRESENT EVIL WOULD REIGN - ITS GOOD TO SEE THAT GOOD WINS IN THE END WHILST THE STRUGGLE TO OVERCOME LOSS EVEN MURDER FOR THE SAKE OF POWER AND MONEY CAN TAKE ANY PERSON - SO CHOOSE YOU MUST FOR RIGHT OVER WRONG MEANS WHAT COMES AROUND GOES AROUND AND ANY MISDEED WILL GET ITS JUST REWARD - STARRING UEE OF AFTERSCHOOL AND JUNG IL WOO
In this heartwarming tale, seven orphans discover they’re not alone, so long as they’ve got each other. Headed by the plucky Baek Won (UEE), the eldest “sister,” this scrappy group of orphans form a bond stronger than those of even the closest blood kin. Tying this family unit together is their adoptive father, Han Joo (Kim Sang Joong), whose work at the Maritime Institute provides no shortage of unique challenges for the entire family
UEE
JUNG IL WOO
https://www.dramafever.com/drama/4328/Golden_Rainbow/
Sunday, May 22, 2016
MARS THIS END OF MAY WILL BE OPPOSITE THE SUN AND EARTH WHERE MARS WILL ONLY BE A MERE 55.7 MIILION KILIMETERS IN DISTANCE FROM THE EARTH - VISIBLE TO THE EYE
Last week, Mercury stole the show. Now it's Mars' turn.
On Sunday morning, Mars, Earth and the sun will line up perfectly in the sky. This once-every-two-years event is called Mars opposition. That's because Mars and the sun will be on opposite sides of Earth.
Right now, Mars is about 77 million kilometres from us, coming ever closer until May 30, when the red planet passes within 75.3 million kilometres. That will be Mars' closest approach in 10½ years. In 2018, Mars will get a lot chummier, passing within a mere 58 million kilometres.
The modern-day record of 55.7 million kilometres between Earth and Mars was set in 2003. That won't be surpassed until the year 2287, according to NASA.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/mars-opposition-1.3589952
On Sunday morning, Mars, Earth and the sun will line up perfectly in the sky. This once-every-two-years event is called Mars opposition. That's because Mars and the sun will be on opposite sides of Earth.
Right now, Mars is about 77 million kilometres from us, coming ever closer until May 30, when the red planet passes within 75.3 million kilometres. That will be Mars' closest approach in 10½ years. In 2018, Mars will get a lot chummier, passing within a mere 58 million kilometres.
The modern-day record of 55.7 million kilometres between Earth and Mars was set in 2003. That won't be surpassed until the year 2287, according to NASA.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/mars-opposition-1.3589952
LET'S JUST CALL THESE OLYMPIC GAMES FOR WHAT IT IS - A SEX CRAVED ROMP OF ATHLETES GONE WILD AS WINNER OR LOSERS WIN IN THE OLYMPIC VILLAGE DORMS WITH SEX PARTIES - AS CONDOMS GALOURE GETS DISTRIBUTED TO 450,000 EXCEEDING THE LONDON SUMMER OLYMPIC AFFAIR
About 450,000 condoms
will be distributed during the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, three times more
than for the London Games four years ago, the International Olympic
Committee says.
Part of the reason was because
100,000 female condoms will be available for the first time, along with
350,000 condoms for men. About 175,000 packets of lubricant are also
being supplied.
The IOC says the condoms would encourage 10,500 athletes and staff to practice safe sex.
It's
not clear if the increase is related to Brazil's outbreak of the Zika
virus. The Associated Press asked the question of the IOC in an email on
Friday but did not receive an immediate response.
The
Zika virus is carried by mosquitoes, but can also be transmitted
sexually. The virus is linked to microcephaly, a condition in which
babies are born with undersized brains and skulls.
The
condoms will be distributed free from a clinic in the Athletes'
Village, or from vending machines. The village opens on July 24 with the
Olympics opening on Aug. 5.
A ONE SEX BATHROOM IN SOUTH KOREA GANGNAM DISTRCT GETS A SERIAL MURDER OCCURANCE AS THE MAN WAITS INSIDE THE BATHROOM FOR ANY STALKED WOMAN AND THEN KILLS HER - AS THE DEMOCRATS CHAOS DRIVE FOR THE SAME SEX BATHROOMS IN THE USA MOVES FORWARD IN CHAOS WAITING TO HAPPEN BY DESIGN
South Korean police concluded Sunday that the recent murder of a
23-year-old woman in southern Seoul was a random crime by a man
suffering from mental illness.
The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency said in a press briefing that the killing by the 34-year-old man, only identified by his surname Kim, was a typical crime committed by the mentally disturbed.
Kim was arrested last week on suspicion of stabbing the woman to death at a public bathroom near Gangnam Subway Station on May 17. He allegedly waited until other six men left the toilet and killed the first woman who entered, according to CCTV footage.
http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20160522000287
The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency said in a press briefing that the killing by the 34-year-old man, only identified by his surname Kim, was a typical crime committed by the mentally disturbed.
Kim was arrested last week on suspicion of stabbing the woman to death at a public bathroom near Gangnam Subway Station on May 17. He allegedly waited until other six men left the toilet and killed the first woman who entered, according to CCTV footage.
http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20160522000287
TALIBAN LEADER MULLAH AKHTAR MANSOUR GETS TOAST BY A DRONE STRIKE AS THE AFGHAN WAR MOVES ON EVEN AFTER THE MISSION ACCOMPLISHED RHETORIC FROM THE POTUS BHO CHAOS BACK IN 2008 - AS THE DEMOCRAT BUG OUT CAMPAIGN HAS NOT BROUGHT REAL FUNDAMENTAL CHANGE TO END THE TERRORISTS INSTEAD THE CHICKEN HAS COME TO ROAST THE DEMOCRAT LAME DUCK IN OFFICE
Dramatic photographs have emerged of the bodies of Afghan Taliban boss Mullah Akhtar Mansour and his driver after the pair were killed a targeted drone strike authorized by Barack Obama.
The images show two bodies - believed to be that of Mansour and the driver of the car - after they were pulled from vehicle wreckage at the weekend.
However, it is not clear which body is that of Mansour. The images show the badly burned feet of one man, while another body is unidentifiable inside a wooden coffin.
Both the Taliban and the Afghanistan Government have now confirmed his death after he was killed travelling in a remote area of the border with Pakistan.
Earlier in the day Afghan Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah had said that Mansour was 'more than likely' dead.
Speaking live on television as he chaired a Cabinet meeting, Abdullah said Mansour's death would have a positive impact on attempts to bring peace to Afghanistan, where the Taliban have been waging an insurgency for 15 years.
Mansour was 'the main figure preventing the Taliban joining the peace process', Abdullah said.
From the day he took over the Taliban following the death of Mullah Omar, he intensified violence against ordinary citizens, especially in Afghanistan.'
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, speaking in Myanmar today, repeatedly referred to Mansour in the past tense.
Mansour, he said 'posed a continuing imminent threat to U.S. personnel in Afghanistan, Afghan civilians, Afghan security forces' and members of the U.S./NATO coalition.
He said the air strike on Mansour 'sends a clear message to the world that we will continue to stand with our Afghan partners'.
'Peace is what we want, Mansur was a threat to that effort,' Kerry said. 'He also was directly opposed to peace negotiations and to the reconciliation process. It is time for Afghans to stop fighting and to start building a real future together.'
It remains unclear what the role was of the second man killed in the car. The Pentagon initially called him a fellow 'combatant', but officials told AFP he was a civilian who worked for a local rental company.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3602691/Head-Taliban-Afghanistan-likely-killed-airstrike.html
The images show two bodies - believed to be that of Mansour and the driver of the car - after they were pulled from vehicle wreckage at the weekend.
However, it is not clear which body is that of Mansour. The images show the badly burned feet of one man, while another body is unidentifiable inside a wooden coffin.
Both the Taliban and the Afghanistan Government have now confirmed his death after he was killed travelling in a remote area of the border with Pakistan.
Earlier in the day Afghan Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah had said that Mansour was 'more than likely' dead.
Speaking live on television as he chaired a Cabinet meeting, Abdullah said Mansour's death would have a positive impact on attempts to bring peace to Afghanistan, where the Taliban have been waging an insurgency for 15 years.
Mansour was 'the main figure preventing the Taliban joining the peace process', Abdullah said.
From the day he took over the Taliban following the death of Mullah Omar, he intensified violence against ordinary citizens, especially in Afghanistan.'
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, speaking in Myanmar today, repeatedly referred to Mansour in the past tense.
Mansour, he said 'posed a continuing imminent threat to U.S. personnel in Afghanistan, Afghan civilians, Afghan security forces' and members of the U.S./NATO coalition.
He said the air strike on Mansour 'sends a clear message to the world that we will continue to stand with our Afghan partners'.
'Peace is what we want, Mansur was a threat to that effort,' Kerry said. 'He also was directly opposed to peace negotiations and to the reconciliation process. It is time for Afghans to stop fighting and to start building a real future together.'
It remains unclear what the role was of the second man killed in the car. The Pentagon initially called him a fellow 'combatant', but officials told AFP he was a civilian who worked for a local rental company.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3602691/Head-Taliban-Afghanistan-likely-killed-airstrike.html
A B-52 CRASHES IN GUAM SHORTLY AFTER TAKE OFF - SIMILAR TO AN INCIDENT BACK IN 2008 WHERE ANOTHER B-52 CRASHED DURING THE LIBERATION DAY CELEBRATION
The U.S. Air Force said Thursday a B-52 crashed on Guam shortly after
takeoff, but all seven crew members made it out safely. No injuries were
reported.
The plane aborted on takeoff and caught fire at about 8:30 a.m., Pacific Air Forces public affairs said in an email. It crashed on the flight line of the base.
The bomber was deployed to Guam from Minot, North Dakota, as part of the military's continuous bomber presence in the Pacific, The Air Force said. The crew members are with the 69th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron and were performing a routine training mission, it said.
http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2016/05/20/2016052000536.html
The plane aborted on takeoff and caught fire at about 8:30 a.m., Pacific Air Forces public affairs said in an email. It crashed on the flight line of the base.
The bomber was deployed to Guam from Minot, North Dakota, as part of the military's continuous bomber presence in the Pacific, The Air Force said. The crew members are with the 69th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron and were performing a routine training mission, it said.
http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2016/05/20/2016052000536.html
WESTERN WOMEN IN SOUTH KOREA AND OR JAPAN GETS RAPED AND THE AUTHORITIES BLAMES THE VICTIM AS AUSSIE AIRDRE MATTNER FINDS OUT THE HARD WAY AS SEX CRIMES IN SOUTH KOREA INCREASED 40% SINCE 2008 AND THE AUTHORITIES CAN ONLY TRY TO WHITE WASH THE VICTIMS ORDEAL - AS ONLY THE VICTIM CAN FIGHT BACK WITH ITS OWN INVISTIGATION TO MOVE THE MOUNTAIN OF RED TAPE IN BRINGING PROSECUTION FOR HER RAPIST FROM A NIGERIAN MAN
WHEN Aussie Airdre Mattner was drugged and raped while on holiday, she had no idea her ordeal had only just begun.
The
25-year-old from Adelaide realised the only way to find justice in
South Korea was to run her own campaign. In doing so, she exposed a
culture where violence against women, particularly foreigners, is often
accepted.Her fight has led her to other victims of sex attacks who have been ignored by the authorities, in a shocking pattern explored in tonight’s 60 Minutes.
Airdre, who teaches English in Japan, was visiting Seoul with her boyfriend and a friend last September, and decided to stay on a few days alone.
Like many Australians, she believed the South Korean capital was safe, and joined a pub crawl advertised on Facebook to get to know the city better.
After just three drinks, things went hazy and she found herself in a taxi with a stranger, she wrote on her GoFundMe page, which has raised almost $18,000.
She was violently sick, but managed to plead with the driver to take her to her hostel, showing him the address on her phone. He ignored her.
“The next thing I recall is being on a bed in a hotel room,” she said. “The man was on top of me. I struggled and tried to push him away but was again too heavily drugged to manage anything.
“I woke up the next morning completely naked. All my money was gone. My clothes and belongings were torn and strewn across the room.”
http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/country-where-rape-of-foreign-women-is-swept-under-carpet/news-story/15828f8d9ad2b1fa7a09fee628ad157a
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