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USA Sec of Defense and Chinese Defense Minister shake hands
c/o Telegraph (UK): "China has insisted that its military technology lags 'decades behind' the United States and other developed countries and poses no threat to the rest of the world." (2011 Jan 10)
China Declares Air Defense Zone Over Japanese Claimed Islands. Warns of Action Against Aircraft Over Disputed Sea
China has demarcated an "air-defence identification zone" over an area of the East China Sea, covering islands that are also claimed by Japan.
China's Defence Ministry said aircraft entering the zone must obey its rules or face "emergency defensive measures".
The islands, known as Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China, are a source of rising tension between the countries.
Japan lodged a strong protest over what it said was an "escalation".
BBC quoted by (and many other related links at) War News Updates, whose blogger comments, "This is an incredibly dangerous escalation. The following questions then begs an answer … will China shoot down a Japanese (or even an American) aircraft if it flies through this region?"
Satellite Photos Reveal China's 'Superguns'
Satellite imagery has revealed two unusually large artillery pieces, measuring about 80 ft and 110 ft respectively, at a test centre for armour and artillery northwest of Baotou in China....
Janes.com as quoted by War News Updates
h/t War News Updates
U.S. Officials Are Surprised On China's Growing Ability To Strike U.S. Bases, Ships And Aircraft Throughout The Pacific
...the Chinese are "rapidly expanding and diversifying" their ability to strike U.S. bases, ships and aircraft throughout to the Pacific, including those in places like Guam that were previously out of reach. The report's release comes as the U.S. simultaneously increases the frequency with which it interacts with the Chinese military, and blasts the country for hacking into U.S. computer networks to steal secrets.
ForeignPolicy.com quoted by War News Updates, whose editor comments, "I am surprised that U.S. officials are surprised by these Chinese developments."
Why Are U.S. Taxpayers Funding China's Nuclear Security
The Obama administration is funding a joint nuclear security center in Beijing designed to stem nuclear weapons proliferation — despite recent state-run media reports showing Beijing’s plans to hit U.S. cities with nuclear missiles that would kill millions of Americans during a conflict.
Washington Times quoted at War News Updates.
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When I was young, I observed that a precious few nuts wanted to get behind the Iron Curtain, while the bodies on the barbed wire at the Berlin Wall testified how mortally desperate many were to get out.
That seemed clear.
Never had reason to revise that image's lesson, only reinforced.
During Nam, I understood the protesters against an unfair draft, corporatized warfare, and thoughtless jingoism, but protesting these things got conflated with (or hijacked by) anti-war, pro-Communist, anti-American ideologues. All I could think was, had they not seen the bodies at the wall as I had?
When the slaughter and torture of our abandoned SVN allies inevitably occurred, 'told you so' was awfully cold comfort.
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Y'know the saying, gun control is hitting what you aim at?
A well regulated militia is responsive because you have an informed citizenry. Well-armed and ready, obviously. Expected to be able to hit what they aim at, implicitly. Able to aim coordinatedly, preferably.
But importantly, when you call out, "The redcoats are coming!" you don't have to explain who the redcoats are, or why that announcement means, "Grab your muskets and come a-runnin'."
Update terms as needed.
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Why would we need an old-fashioned militia in this day and age? That's silly.
Oh, well, there's this.
Politico headline: Arming TSA officers hits resistance on the Hill
Breitbart headline: Capitol Hill Resists Union's Call for Armed TSA Agents
Drudge headline (linked to Politico): Union moves to arm TSA agents...
Notice how Politico focuses exclusively on "Capitol Hill," Breitbart also puts the focus on "Capitol Hill" while mentioning that upon which Drudge exclusively focuses, the armed Union members angle.
That crazy Drudge guy!
Well, and then there's this.
DHS to Hire "Top Secret" Domestic Security Force
Of course, that's on Infowars. That Alex Jones, what a certifiable tinfoil-hat loon! And what would we have to fear from the TSA or a secret domestic security force? All of these things just tell us how safe we are.
Right?
Now, about militias.
Supplemental viewing:
The President Learns Gun Control (video)
The President Learns Gun Control (video)
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I invested my saved daylight time at interest. When most of you get your hour back, I got a return of an hour and seven minutes back.
When I asked the fellah who rents the pasture about it, he said you adjust the cattle by winding their tails. Clockwise in the Spring...
As DST ends, I have three house clocks, a microwave, a coffee maker, and one auto clock to adjust.
The clock on the other vehicle was always on Standard Time. Because I can't not adjust my wristwatch anymore, since I quit wearing one, I resist tyranny in the truck.
Always disappointing, when alleged or self-described Constitutional conservatives don't see the fingers of unConstitutional governance for what they are. Welfare, prohibitionism, public transportation, government schools, so broadly accepted, tolerated, even expected, by ignorant citizens, are all creeping (sometimes hustling) socialism.
So, please help stop tyranny:
Sign the Petition to Get Government out of our Clocks!
End Daylight Savings Time!
The point is not DST itself, of course.
The point is the government all up in our clocks.
Get over it, says anybody who's happy with, or not personally affected by, some overreach or other of government.
Sorry. It's the principle of the thing. The principle of the proper and improper province of government.
Businesses, individuals, you want to adjust your work hours or golf club hours or sleeping time twice a year, fine, go ahead. Make it a big club so you can all do it on the same day, whatever you please. The Saving Time Club. You can have votes on when and everything. Your school or job or family doesn't respect your DST preference? Move, change jobs, find a new family. If that were the way it was, we could say, "It's a free country."
"But," ask those inured to tyranny, "Without a Law, everybody would be on different schedules! How will we all know what time it is?"
By leaving the clocks alone. Duh. You change your store's 9-to-5 to 8-to-4 if you want to.
Repeal of 100% of what "government" is permitted to do by our neglect to reign it in - that's the principle of the thing.
Y'know, as long as I'm tilting at windmills…
Repeal Time Zone Designations altogether!
Bring back God's accurate Local Time!
Time, as time zones, were standardized primarily so that train schedules could be accurate. Today's shipping techniques are all digitized, and computerized clocks - as with sundials - know where they are, so, they can know when it is at that location. We can return to God's sun's local time everywhere. If you need to refer to a global standard, there's always Greenwich Mean.
And DST was sold to the public as a means to save on whale oil used for lighting, so people wouldn't burn so much for light in the evening. Whale oil lighting — that's still so precious nowadays!
Returning to local time would be a hoot. Totally possible, with digital, geo-aware, linked-up clocks.
But then, then, after the EMPs…
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