- TRADE DEFICIT USED TO BOLSTER CHINESE TECH TRANSFERS
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- The administration and the media regularly bemoan the
fact that the US suffers a huge trade deficit every year with China. This
growing deficit is being used to push China to open her markets to more
US goods. That's all good and proper, except that China only wants American
high tech/military related imports. After all, that's one of the main reasons
for communist China opening up her markets to capitalist investments.
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- As the AP reported, "The Chinese government has
repeatedly said that China wants to buy more goods from the US as an effort
to narrow the trade gap, but Washington refuses to ease restrictions on
exports of high-tech products to China." Well, that isn't exactly
true. There is a division within the Commerce department that has been
facilitating these high tech transfers to China for years. It's really
a matter of China always wanting to push the envelop of what is permitted,
and the Bush administration wanting to not make it obvious that it is selling
out our own national security to both Russia and China.
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- Last December the administration gave the go ahead to
sell China a state of the art nuclear reactor, which has a lot of technology
applicable to China's growing nuclear powered fleet of ships. If the national
security issue wasn't bad enough, the Bush White House decided the sale
was going to be financed by the US taxpayer (Export-Import Bank), supposedly
because it was going to mean "jobs for Americans." China has
billions in reserves. Why do we continue to insist on giving China government
loans?"
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- The pro-China agenda among globalists is hidden amidst
their cautionary rhetoric. The UPI mentioned this week that "The Pentagon
will release its annual report on Chinese military power Friday that will
sketch out as much what it doesn't knows about China as what it does. The
U.S. Defense Department knows that China is devoting a steadily increasing
amount of money to its military and is developing 'very sophisticated capabilities,'
some of which are of 'real concern,' according to Defense Secretary Robert
Gates."
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- Then Gates claims it "isn't apparent what China
intends to do with all this power." Really? How about go to war with
the West? It does little good for Gates to claim, "We wish that there
were greater transparency, that they would talk more about what their intentions
are, what their strategies are." In fact, they have. Certain Chinese
Generals have said they intend to attack the West, but the West refuses
to believe them--or plays like they don't.
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- The Threat is very real: It is growing and it is financed
by trade. Demetri Sevastopulo and Mure Dickie of the Financial Times reported
that, "The 2007 Pentagon China military power report will highlight
the surprising pace of development of a new Jin-class submarine equipped
to carry a nuclear ballistic missile with a range of more than 5,000 miles.
Washington is also concerned about the strategic implications of China's
preparations later this year to start deploying a new mobile, land-based
DF-31A intercontinental ballistic missile that could target the whole US
[China already has silo based missiles that can reach the US]."
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- Bill Gertz of The Washington Times adds even more detail
about the hard line the report has taken: "The statement, released
yesterday, contradicts assessments of some pro-China analysts and intelligence
officials who have said the nation's military buildup is relatively benign
and limited to resolving the sovereignty issue of Taiwan, which was separated
from China in 1949 during a civil war." This has been the standard
line in the Clinton and Bush administrations in order to pacify the public.
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- "A defense official briefing reporters on the report
said the Chinese buildup is showing 'the beginnings of a power-projection
capability that has ramifications well beyond a potential Taiwan crisis.'"
That's putting it mildly. "Chinese efforts to develop an aircraft
carrier and other power-projection forces are based on concerns that sea
lanes used to transport oil to China are vulnerable to disruption, the
official said. China is dependent on the sea lanes for its oil imports
-- about 80 percent of which travel through the Straits of Malacca.
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- "The Pentagon report, "Military Power of the
People's Republic of China 2007," contains new information on the
nation's weapons and military strategy, including development of space
weapons. In January, it successfully tested an anti-satellite missile against
a Chinese satellite. The report said the test 'poses dangers to human space
flight and puts at risk the assets of all space-faring nations' It said
China appears to be working on an 'information blockade' of space through
missiles, lasers and electromagnetic anti-satellite missiles and jammers."
"Information blockade" is a euphemism for killing US military
satellites--an important offensive maneuver.
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- These annual assessments have always sounded some form
of warning. But, the real question remains, will the US really do anything
about it? The answer is no. The assessment merely allows them to say, "we
warned you." But they will allow China to grow until it's too late.
Suddenly the administration will announce, "We have a problem, and
the Chinese are too far along for us to do anything about it." Indeed.
That's the same game they played while building up Russia after and during
WWII.
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- FALSIFYING INTEL ON THE IRAQ-AL QAEDA LINKAGE
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- In order to justify continued US occupation in Iraq,
this week President Bush resurrected shoddy intelligence that was two years
old to bolster his case. Predictably, the new push started off with a softball
question thrown out by a White House reporter: "... you raised 2-year-old
intelligence talking about the threat posed by al-Qaeda, [and] it's met
with increasing skepticism. A majority in the public, a growing number
of Republicans, appear not to trust you any longer to be able to carry
out this policy successfully."
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- The first parts of the question contains not-so-veiled
criticism. The intelligence is not only old but false. The US had said
that a Dutch company Vlemmo was the link between Iraq and al Qaeda. But,
on May 23 Dutch Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen said in a letter to parliament
that the Vlemmo company does not exist as a registered entity with the
Chamber of Commerce in the Netherlands and is also not known to the tax
service. That the company may have served as a front for illegal arms trade
with Iraq is equally unknown to me."
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- The only way such a company operates without being legally
registered is to be part of a government operated secret front. The CIA
has hundreds of such companies around the world, and other governments
cooperate bykeeping them off the record. So, what we have here is more
collusion between the US and European governments to manage and control
the CIA created "al Qaeda" --its favorite terrorist front for
mounting high profile attacks on the West.
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- Just when we thought this critical reporter was going
to really put the president in one of those spots where he stammers and
can't answer, he follows up with a question that not only lets the president
off the hook, but begs for a propagandistic response. "Can you explain
why you believe you're still a credible messenger on the war?"
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- Bush had a ready answer prepared, as he does with these
scripted press conferences -- the same one he's relied on for years: "Failure
in Iraq will cause generations to suffer, in my judgment. Al-Qaeda will
be emboldened. They will say, 'Yes, once again, we've driven the great
soft America out of a part of the region.' It will cause them to be able
to recruit more; it will give them safe haven. They are a direct threat
to the United States."
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- Former CIA analyst Robert Baer explains why the linkage
between Iraq and al Qaeda is bogus: "This week the White House made
a big show of declassifying intelligence alleging that in 2005 al-Qaeda
considered using Iraq as a base to launch terrorist attacks on the United
States. The White House didn't bother to mask the reason for the disclosure
-- to put pressure on the Democrats to stop trying to impose a date for
a withdrawal from Iraq....
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- "As for the intelligence on al-Qaeda and Iraq, it's
even flimsier. The captured Qaeda member who provided it, Abu Faraj al-Libbi,
may have been tortured, either by Pakistan, by the CIA or at Guantanamo.
Even if we accept the White House's euphemism for torture -- 'enhanced
interrogation' techniques -- what Libbi has to say about Qaeda can't be
trusted, let alone drive U.S. policy.
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- "Never mind that no one can decide what exact role
Libbi played in Qaeda, or whether he was even in a position to know bin
Laden's plans. He was never on the FBI Most Wanted list (as most Qaeda
leaders on whom we have sufficient evidence are). Abu Faraj al-Libbi isn't
even his real name (al-Libbi means "the Libyan" in Arabic). Abu
Faraj al-Libbi is often confused with Ibn Shaykh al-Libbi, who was captured
shortly after 9/11 and reportedly recanted his confession about Saddam
having a pre-9/11 connection to al-Qaeda, saying it was coerced. Abu Faraj
was also initially confused with Anas al-Liby, who was supposedly involved
in the 1998 East Africa bombings and is on the Most Wanted list. Confused?
Well, that's just the way the White House likes it
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- Another problem with Abu Faraj al-Libbi's confession
is that it doesn't make sense. Qaeda knows as well as anyone that Iraq,
where the U.S. military could knock down your door at any moment, would
be one of the worst places in the world from which to launch or plan a
terrorist attack on the United States. The Administration knows that America
is much more vulnerable in Europe. A Qaeda terrorist with a European passport
can come into this country under the visa waiver program, virtually without
scrutiny. If the Bush Administration continues to feed the American people
the same dog's breakfast of bad intelligence, we'll be in Iraq until Bush
leaves office [and beyond]. And while we're at it, just maybe in a war
with Iran."
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- BUSH USES AL QAEDA TO INFILTRATE IRAN
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- Paul Joseph Watson & Steve Watson of PrisonPlanet.com
detail the latest hypocrisy in the phony war on terror. The US claims that
al Qaeda is a threat to our very existence, and now we find our own government
is using a branch of al Qaeda for its own purposes in destabilizing Iran.
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- "Recent revelations illustrating the fact that the
U.S. government is using a Sunni Al-Qaeda terrorist group formerly headed
by the alleged mastermind of 9/11 to carry out bombings in Iran undermines
the entire war on terror as a monumental hoax that is being exploited purely
to realize a geopolitical agenda....
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- "'The CIA is giving arms-length support, supplying
money and weapons, to an Iranian militant group, Jundullah, which has conducted
raids into Iran from bases in Pakistan,' the London Telegraph reported
yesterday. Jundullah is a Sunni Al-Qaeda offshoot organization that was
formerly headed by alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed."
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- CIA support is always at "arms length" meaning
that it uses third parties to do the transfer so that it can deny any direct
relationship. Keep in mind that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is a former ISI
operative (Pakistan's version of the CIA) which gives him direct links
to the CIA which controls many of the ISI operations.
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- "The group has been blamed for a number of bombings
inside Iran aimed at destabilizing Ahmadinejad's government and is also
active in Pakistan, having been fingered for its involvement in attacks
on police stations and car bombings at the Pakistan-US Cultural Center
in 2004."
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- Let me return to Bob Baer's analysis of the White House
effort to provoke Iran: "ABCNews reported that the White House recently
ordered the CIA to destabilize the Iranian regime [actually, this was merely
legal cover for something that has long since been in process].... Deputy
National Security Advisor Elliot Abrams is behind the covert action against
Iran,... Abrams was a key player in the Iran-contra fiasco, which was rooted
in lousy intelligence [no, there was a hidden agenda that is playing out
even now]. In case you have forgotten, a handful of confidence men convinced
the Reagan NSC, along with Abrams, that they were talking to moderate Iranians,
who, properly nurtured, would supposedly change the character of the Iranian
regime. It was a lie; the NSC was dealing with the most radical, hostile
faction in Iran, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the same group
holding our hostages in Lebanon [because they were busy creating future
enemies].
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- "Once again, neo-cons are urging the U.S. to take
advantage of Iraq's long border with Iran and finally do something about
the Iranian regime. I even got a call not long after the invasion from
a neo-con asking if I wanted to go to Iraq to handle the Mujahideen-e-Khlaq,
an Iranian dissident group on the State Department's terrorist list. The
mission was supposedly to collect intelligence on Iranian nuclear facilities.
(I declined, and I don't know where it went from there.) And I still keep
hearing rumblings that Elliot Abrams is pressuring our Arab allies and
Pakistan to fund and arm Jundallah, a fundamentalist Sunni Iranian Ballouch
group, to attack the Iranian government ---- in other words, an off-the-books
covert action. But neither the MEK nor Jundallah has the wherewithal to
change the regime in Tehran." True, but the US is working all the
angles fishing for a provocationthat may induce Iran to strike at US troops,
thereby justifying a new war.
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