Probably better and than the crap I find in my paper.
"US presses China on Iran sanctions" by Michael Wines | New York Times, January 12, 2012BEIJING - Timothy F. Geithner, the US Treasury secretary, pressed Chinese senior leaders yesterday to join a US-led campaign to put pressure Iran over its nuclear program by sharply reducing Tehran’s lucrative oil export business.
And as they had before Geithner’s arrival here Tuesday, Chinese officials said publicly that they wanted no part of it.
I SECOND THAT, and you can get word to Geithner!
NO MORE GOD-DAMN WARS for ISRAEL, got it?!!!!!
But the administration of President Obama, armed with a new law that would punish foreign financial institutions that deal with Iran, appeared undeterred.
I thought we (well, not me; I wrote in Ralph Nader) elected change in this country!
This guy as bad if not worse than the last guy, seeing as he is now in "lockstep" with Israel.
Well, how about unlocking yourself and looking after America's security interests first and foremost, not sharing them with some other nation?
Looking out for their interests first (as the AmeriKan political system does, the Congress being even worse than the executive in the bend-and-spread department) really hasn't worked out to well for America in the Middle East and Muslim world.
“We are in the early stages of a broad global diplomatic effort to take advantage of this new legislation to significantly intensify the pressure on Iran,’’ a senior administration official said. “We are telling them what’s important to us, and they are listening.’’
Yes, I'll bet the Chinese are listening very closely.
The official insisted on anonymity because of the sensitivity of the issues.
But if you are a truth-telling blogger and not a propaganda organ (keep reading).... sigh.
The discussions on Iran were a highlight of separate meeting with Prime Minister Wen Jiabao of China, Vice President Xi Jinping, and Vice Prime Minister Li Keqiang that covered the landscape of economic and trade relations between the two nations.
Because the Treasury Department enforces US sanction laws, Geithner spent time explaining the legislation, which would generally deny access to the US financial system to foreign financial institutions that do business with Iran’s central bank.
The law exempts institutions in nations that achieve “significant reduction’’ in Iranian oil imports. How much is significant is not defined, giving the White House broad leeway to promise dispensations to big oil purchasers that make at least some effort to meet the requirement.
Yeah, well, don't step on China too hard or they will start unloading all those increasingly worthless US treasuries. And you can kiss all that cheap Chinese crap that you love so much goodbye, Americans.
China is among Iran’s biggest oil customers, relying on Tehran for more than 11 percent of its oil imports and 5 percent of its entire oil inventory, and it has extensive business interests in the Iranian oil industry. Although China has carried out UN sanctions on Iran, it also has worked hard to water down sanctions proposals that have gone before the Security Council.
U.S. called it a victory.
Related: Israeli Oil Shipments Exempt From Iran Sanctions
Oh, well, hey....
What an ungrateful tribe.
Yesterday, a Chinese foreign affairs vice minister, Zhai Jun, dismissed the latest US proposal, just as a second vice minister, Cui Tiankai, had in a meeting with foreign journalists Monday.
“We oppose pressuring or international sanctions, because these pressures and sanctions are not helpful,’’ Zhai said. “They have not solved any issues. We believe these problems should be solved by dialogue.’’
Geithner also spoke with Chinese officials about a range of US economic and trade concerns, including complaints by US businesses that Chinese companies are stealing their intellectual property, and that Beijing is denying US companies equal access to its markets.
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"Beijing to disclose pollution data" January 07, 2012
BEIJING - A bureau in charge of monitoring China’s frequently smog-choked capital will release more detailed reports, state media said yesterday, following a public outcry over the hazards of fine-particle pollution.
Beijing’s decision to publish the data appeared aimed at appeasing residents’ anger over the pollution and a lack of government openness about it.
Frustration over the issue has been fueled by a Twitter feed set up by the US Embassy in Beijing that reports air quality as measured by a monitor on the embassy roof and publishes it online every hour....
Look, I'm not in favor of pollution, but WHAT A PROVOCATIVE ACT!!!
Beijing is frequently cloaked in yellow haze. Buildings a couple of blocks away are barely visible. Still, Beijing’s official air quality index records the pollution as “light’’ - a reading at odds with what many people experience....
That's the feeling I get when reading a Globe.
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You know, if the US was REALLY WORRIED about the AIR they would SHUT DOWN the BIGGEST POLLUTER on the FACE of the PLANET -- the AmeriKan War Machine!
"China plans to collect identities of bloggers" January 19, 2012|By Michael Wines
Free-speech advocates generally condemn the move, saying that the microblogs’ freewheeling debate and frequent criticism of official misconduct will be neutered if the government knows the identity of everyone who posts a comment.
Yes, THANK GOD that COULD NEVER HAPPEN in AmeriKa! It's not like there is a SOPA or a PIPA lurking somewhere out there in the halls of power.
Also see: The Anonymous Trap
I am anonymous for reasons of personal safety regarding the general public, dear readers. I know the commentaries here can get inflammatory; unfortunately, the truth will do that.
Beyond that, the government already knows who I am. I had to supply the information to start the blog, and Google surely forwarded it to the government. Sometimes I think they like me right here. That way they know what I'm doing, and I'm not out in the streets. Other times I know they don't like it because I am -- admittedly in a small way -- part of the cacophony of truth that helps forms the cosmos of karma.
Real-name use also would allow security officers to target microblog users who consistently post comments about sensitive issues, even if their individual remarks do not attract large numbers of readers....
Meaning blogs like me.
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And is it just a coincidence that after China puts the kibosh on the Iran sanctions the CIA-supported Tibetans start acting up?
"Tibetan protesters, Chinese forces clash" New York Times, January 24, 2012
HONG KONG - Security forces opened fire on Tibetan protesters in western China yesterday, injuring at least 32 people and killing at least one of them in the largest violent confrontation in ethnic Tibetan areas of China since 2008, two Tibetan rights groups and the Tibetan exile government said....
Yesterday’s incident was the second reported shooting of Tibetan protesters in the past week and a half....
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"Tibetan clashes in China spread; 2 reported dead; others injured" by Gillian Wong | Associated Press, January 26, 2012
BEIJING - Deadly clashes between ethnic Tibetans and Chinese security forces have spread to a second area in southwestern China, the government and an overseas activist group said yesterday....
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Also see: More Tibetans reported killed in clash
Chinese official urges vigilance in Tibet
I know it is painful, readers; however, have you ever looked under the Dalai Lama's cloak?
That the overwhelmingly positive coverage that guy gets in the AmeriKan MSM! If they truly honored the man's words they wouldn't be creating enemies with their agenda-pushing, war-promoting lies.
And if he was truly what he says he is, he would shun them.
Another coincidence that the newly-created western intelligence base in East Africa was activated?
"29 Chinese abducted in Sudan attack" Associated Press, January 30, 2012
BEIJING - Militants apparently captured 29 Chinese workers after attacking a remote work site in a volatile region of Sudan, and Sudanese forces were increasing security for Chinese projects and personnel there, China said yesterday.
China has close political and economic relations with Sudan, especially in the energy sector.
The Foreign Ministry in Beijing said the militants attacked Saturday, and Sudanese forces launched a rescue mission yesterday in coordination with the Chinese embassy in Khartoum....
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"China denies any abductees freed in Sudan" Associated Press, January 31, 2012
BEIJING - None of the 29 Chinese workers abducted after an attack in a volatile region of Sudan have been freed, Chinese state media said this morning, dismissing reports that some of the workers had been released.
The workers were abducted Saturday by militants in a remote region in the country’s south. Sudanese state media reported yesterday that 14 of them had been freed, but the official Xinhua News Agency and China Daily newspaper said all 29 were still being held.
China has close political and economic relations with Sudan, especially in the energy sector.
“There are still Chinese workers missing. Some others are still being held by the antigovernment armed forces,’’ Luo said.
Xinhua said 47 Chinese workers were caught in the attack in the South Kordofan region of Sudan. It said 29 were captured and the other 18 fled, and that one of those who fled remains missing.
Sudanese officials have blamed the attack on the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North, a branch of a guerrilla movement that has fought regimes in Khartoum for decades. Its members hail from a minority ethnic group now in control of much of South Sudan, which became the world’s newest country six months ago in a breakaway from Sudan.
In what was described as an incredible victory for AmeriKa and former President George W. Bush.
South Sudan and Sudan are in bitter dispute over oil, which is produced primarily in South Sudan but runs through Sudanese pipelines for export.
I notice THAT is usually at the BOTTOM of DISPUTES -- and just so happens to be where the "terrorists" always show up!!!
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Related: Confusion Over Chinese Rescue Mission in Sudan
No wonder I'm sick of reading the paper; it's all repeats.
Any peace for China?
"President handily wins reelection
TAIPEI - President Ma Ying-jeou was reelected by a comfortable margin yesterday, fending off a challenge from his main rival, Tsai Ing-wen, who criticized his handling of the economy but also sought to exploit fears among voters that Ma’s conciliatory approach toward China was eroding sovereignty. Since Ma’s election in 2008, Taiwanese exports and investment in China have soared; at home, the economy has been buoyed by more than 3 million mainland tourists since his inauguration (New York Times)."
Related:
"Taiwan's rapidly improving ties with longtime foe China are diminishing US influence"
Seems to be happening in a lot of places these days. The signs of a dying empire.
"China protest leader made party official" New York Times, January 17, 2012
BEIJING - In an unlikely coda to the citizen takeover last month of Wukan, a southern China village whose furious residents evicted the authorities over a land dispute, the local Communist Party has selected the protest leader to be the village’s party secretary.
In China? And the authorities listened and empowered one? Aren't you jealous, Americans?
Addressing the grievances that led the villagers to seize power - the land dispute and the suspicious death of a protest leader - appears to be another matter.
Looks like democracy in action to me.
The new party secretary is Lin Zuluan, a 67-year-old retired businessman whom local party members chose in an election on Sunday. Lin heads an ad hoc committee that has run the village since Dec. 11, when local leaders began to flee rather than confront thousands of residents.
You see that, Washington D.C.?
Maybe it's me, but I didn't see that much of them in the Globe. Probably doesn't want the idea catching on here.
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And look at the photograph the printed Globe sent us:
"DANCING IN A NEW YEAR -- Performers took part in a dragon dance during a night parade in Hong Kong yesterday, celebrating the start of the Chinese Lunar New Year. According to the Chinese zodiac, 2012 is called the Year of the Dragon. The traditional Chinese holiday lasts for 15 days (Boston Globe January 24, 2012)."
Let me try the radio.
