CHINA MOVING IN TO CONTROL THE SOUTH CHINA SEA FOR ITS OIL RICH RESERVES YET TO BE EXPLORED–AS VIETNAM, PHILIPPINES, TAIWAN CAN ONLY COMPLAIN–WHILST THE POTUS BHO CAN DO NOTHING LIKE HIS FAILED DOMESTIC POLICIES–IF WE WOULD FOLLOW THE KOREANS WHERE IS THE APOLOGY FOR ALL THE TERRIBLE MISTAKES THE POTUS HAS MADE IN THE LAST 6 YEARS IN OFFICE–NONE OF COURSE SINCE A DEMOCRAT CAN NEVER ADMIT FAULT BUT BLAMES

http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/ship-09022011104103.html

China's decision to park its biggest mobile oil rig 120 miles off the Vietnamese coast has exposed how vulnerable Hanoi, and other littoral states of the South China Sea, are to moves by the region's dominant power to assert its territorial claims.

The Communist neighbors are at loggerheads over the drilling rig in contested waters, each accusing the other of ramming its ships in the area in the worst setback for Sino-Vietnamese ties in years.

While Hanoi's dispute with Beijing over the Spratly Islands, for example, involves fellow claimants the Philippines, Malaysia and Brunei, it is only Vietnam that contests China's expanding occupation of the Paracels.

For years now Hanoi has tried to open talks with Beijing over China's moves on the islands, insisting that they are Vietnamese territory.

While the countries have put aside historic suspicions in recent years to demarcate their land border and the Gulf of Tonkin, negotiations stop dead at the Paracels further south.

Whenever the Vietnamese raise the issue, the Chinese say there is nothing to discuss because the Paracels are under Chinese occupation and sovereignty and not in dispute, according to diplomats close to regular Sino-Vietnamese negotiations.

http://news.yahoo.com/chinas-oil-rig-move-leaves-vietnam-others-looking-210853575.html;_ylt=AwrBEiE29GtTJwkAjlHQtDMD

BLOOD FOUND IN THE YOUTH SHOWS TO REJUNEVATE THE AGING–AS SHOWN TO OCCUR WITH OLDER MICE WHEN INJECTED WITH YOUNGER BLOOD–FROM PAPERS OF SAUL VILLEDA OF UIC–SHOWS PROMISING FOR THE AGING POPULATION

Older mice got stronger, exercised longer and performed better mentally after they were injected with blood from young mice, or even just with a substance that's more abundant in younger blood, U.S. researchers found.

Someday, if more research goes well, this may lead to a way to treat some infirmities of old age in people. In the meantime, scientists have a warning for do-it-yourselfers.

"Don't try this at home," said Saul Villeda of the University of California, San Francisco, an author of one of three papers published online Sunday by the journals Nature Medicine and Science.

He worked with mice that were roughly the equivalent of people in their 20s and 60s. Researchers repeatedly injected the older mice with blood from either the younger animals or other aged mice. Those that got the young blood did better in learning and memory tests than the mice given the older blood. For example, they performed better at recalling where to find a submerged platform in a maze.
Villeda said the researchers are trying to figure out what's in the young blood that made the difference.

http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20140505000048

THE 10 LARGEST MILITARY AIRFORCE

10. German Air Force: 423 combat aircraft -Eurofighter Typhoon and the popular Panavia Tornado

9. Republic of Korea Air Force (South Korea): 458 combat aircraft - American F-16 Fighting Falcon and the Northrop F-5. ROKAF also has a number of fighter-bombers in its ranks, such as the McDonnell Douglas F-15E Strike Eagle and the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II

8. Turkish Air Force: 465 combat aircraft - Turkish Air Force also operates a large number of F-16 Fighting Falcons

7. Pakistan Air Force: 502 combat aircraft - Chinese Chengdu J-7 is the fighter aircraft of choice for Pakistan, with the ever popular F-16 Fighting Falcon also being part of the makeup. The Pakistan Air Force also has French fighter aircraft, with the Dassault Mirage 5 and Mirage IIISoviet Union relics still in operation (like the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21). The KPAF has a large amount of Chinese Shenyang J-5 fighters

6. Korean People’s Air Force (North Korea): 661 combat aircraft - Soviet Union relics still in operation (like the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21). The KPAF has a large amount of Chinese Shenyang J-5 fighters

5. Egyptian Air Force: 900 combat aircraft -combat aircraft is a huge number of F-16 Fighting Falcons

4. Indian Air Force: 1,080 combat aircraft - Sukhoi Su-30MKI air superiority fighters under license from Russia. The Indian Air Force also uses a fighter that was used to fly many successful sorties during the Gulf War, the SEPECAT Jaguar (France/UK)

3. People’s Liberation Army Air Force (China): 1,500 combat aircraft - 330,000 active personnel operating over 2,500 aircraft. The Chinese also build their own fighters and bombers, such as the Mach 2.35-capable Shenyang J-11 and the Xian H-6 that can carry over 20,000 lbs of free-fall bombs.

2. Russian Air Force: 1,900 combat aircraft -The Mikoyan MiG-31 “Foxhound” can fly at speeds of Mach 2.83 (1,860 mph) and has a service ceiling of 67,600 ft. The huge Tupolev Tu-160 strategic bomber can carry 88,185 lbs of weapons and fly at an impressive 1,380 mph.

1. United States Air Force: 3,318 combat aircraft -USAF’s 1,245 F-16 Fighting Falcons alone could occupy fourth place on this list – and that’s just one type of combat aircraft! There are also the hundreds of F-15E Strike Eagles and the dozens of F-22 Raptors and F-35 Lightning IIs. If that wasn’t enough, there are the giant strategic bombers the USAF has at its disposal, such as the famous Boeing B-52 Stratofortress and the futuristic Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit, better known as the Stealth Bomber. The USAF has an amazing array of aircraft in its fleet, not forgetting the utterly terrifying Lockheed AC-130

http://www.therichest.com/rich-list/the-top-10-largest-combat-air-forces-in-the-world/10/

KIEV UKRAINE STANDS FIRM AGAINST RUSSIA INFLUENCE FOR THE PRO RUSSIA SEPARATIST WITHIN UKRAINE–AS THE LAST SEPARATIST FALL

The last separatist barricade at Kramatorsk was an impressive affair; four giant fuel tankers behind a wall of tyres and stone. The armoured personnel carriers of the government forces, lined up ahead, opened fire without warning; a salvo from a main gun streaking down the street.

The wall disintegrated and burst into flames, the tankers were sliced open as if with a can opener, the severed parts of each one left lying across the road. One round overshot and hit a car, leaving it a smoking heap, another went whizzing by a petrol station. The number of casualties, considering the scale of the damage, was relatively low. There were two dead, the driver of the car and an elderly man still clutching his plastic bag of shopping; around half a dozen were injured, two seriously.

There was an interlude of near silence as people who had thrown themselves to the ground and to the grass verge on the side of the road slowly picked themselves up, glad to be alive, and began to help bloodied figures into cars to be taken to hospital. Those who had thought that the horrific events in Odessa, with more than 40 dead, many of them trapped in a burning building, would lead to a lull in the strife in eastern Ukraine – a pause for reflection – found themselves mistaken.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/ukraine-crisis-this-is-not-some-kind-of-a-shortlived-uprising-it-is-a-war-9321410.html