BEIJING: A Chinese General on Friday termed as "flagrant provocation" US plans to send a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to the Yellow Sea and said the country would retaliate if "offended".
"A country needs respect, so does a military. We will retaliate if we are offended," Major General Luo Yuan, deputy secretary-general of the People's Liberation Army's (PLA) Academy of Military Sciences, wrote in an editorial in the PLA Daily.
The Daily Reckoning Presents
The Rise, Fall, and Rise of Disaster
Bill Bonner
The US Department of Agriculture may have some usefulness. Projecting future prices isn't one of them. In 2005, it looked five years ahead and saw a bushel of wheat selling for $3.50. Last week, the price rose to more than twice that much.
Why? God himself is to blame. Not since 1880 has Russia been so dry. And not since Napoleon's invasion has Moscow suffered so much soot.… Continue
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Will the summer of 2010 be remembered as the time when we turned into a nation of sleepwalkers? We have heard reports of the intrusion of the state into everyday life, and of miscarriages of American power abroad. The reports made a stir, but as suddenly as they came they were gone. The last two weeks of July saw two such stories on almost successive days.
First there was "Top Secret America," the three-part Washington Post report by Dana Priest and William M. Arkin on the… Continue
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Three former U.S. soldiers involved in the infamous "Collateral Murder"
helicopter gunship attack on Baghdad civilians in July 2007, say that attack was nothing out of the ordinary. The massacre---that killed more than a dozen Iraqis, two of them employed by Reuters News Service---ignited a wave of international revulsion against the U.S. military when a video of the massacre was released by WikiLeaks last April.
"What the world did not see is the months of training that… Continue
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He has many nicknames. He's been called "The Lightbringer." He's been called "The Messiah". He has been called, "The Anointed One." He has been called simply, "The One."…
The Flower contrasts a utopian society that freely farms and consumes a pleasure giving flower with a society where the same flower is illegal and its consumption is prohibited.
The animation is a meditation on the social and economic costs of marijuana… Continue
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Group Seeks Korean and Vietnam Veterans with Brain Cancer, Glioblastoma for Agent Orange Report
August 12, 2010 posted by Michael Leon •
Agent Orange: The killing and maiming goes on
Korean and Vietnam Veterans that served in areas sprayed with Agent Orange have a higher rate of glioblastoma malformation than found in the civilian population. With the alarming rate of death that our veterans are experiencing from this cancer, it is the mission of the… Continue
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Franklin's Focus 8/13/10
Underground Neofascism in Amerika
I append a back up to things I've been saying for a long time. I long ago argued that Obama's mother probably was a CIA asset, and she had prepared him for a CIA connection. Clinton also was a CIA agent, and was groomed by the CIA to become president. I've argued that Obama was similarly groomed for the presidency and ushered into office with considerable CIA support. This piece is a continuation of items past… Continue
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Friday, August 13, 2010Capital Controls: The Final Phase in the Great Looting of America
Eric Blair
Activist Post
Instituting capital controls seems like the next big event in the government-banking-oligarchy's great looting of America.
First, these vampires designed "free trade" agreements to use slave labor abroad at the expense of American jobs. Next, they moved their investment capital and assets abroad sucking the life-blood out of the U.S. economy. Then,… Continue
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Senate Leaders Strike Deal on Food Safety; Commence Breath Holding
Leading Democrats and Republicans in the Senate came to an agreement today on pending food safety legislation, Congress Daily (subscription) reports. The compromise will be introduced on the floor as a managers’ amendment to replace the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (S. 510) which was approved by the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) committee in November 2009. The managers’ amendment has not… Continue
As the Vietnam War reached a crossroads, the U.S. army had important decisions to make if they wanted to tip the scale back to their side. All options were o...