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Russia-China Launch Biggest Central Asian Military Drill, Testing Surface-To-Air Missiles
More than 7,000 troops from China, Russia and four central Asia countries have gathered in Inner Mongolia for their biggest joint drills "to fight terrorists". The drills are purportedly to prepare troops to protect the so-called Silk Road economic and transport belt that will run through central Asia from China to Europe from terrorist attack, but as one analyst notes, "it is kind of rare to have an anti-terrorist mission which uses battle tanks." Furthermore, as part of a drill:
- *RUSSIA TESTING S-300, S-400 SYSTEMS IN ASTRAKHAN REGION: RIA
So, surface-to-air missile tests? Not very "de-escalation"-y. Perhaps this statement is a clue, "we are trying to exercise together to coordinate our troops to meet any potential eventuality."
A total of 23 Chinese aircraft will participate in Peace Mission-2014, along with tanks, drones and air-defense missiles from countries in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, China’s Xinhua News Agency reported. The SCO groups China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
The exercises are another sign China and Russia are willing to work together as both seek to upgrade their military capacity in the face of rising territorial tensions. The drills will prepare troops to protect the so-called Silk Road economic and transport belt that will run through central Asia from China to Europe from terrorist attack, China Radio International reported.
“It is kind of rare to have an anti-terrorist mission which uses battle tanks,” said Matthew Sussex, head of politics and international relations at the University of Tasmania. “It says: ‘We are trying to exercise together to coordinate our troops to meet any potential eventuality’ — in other words war.
China’s President Xi Jinping, the head of the Central Military Commission, has made it a priority to better prepare the People’s Liberation Army for combat, while Russia’s Vladimir Putin has embarked on the biggest overhaul of his country’s armed forces since the Cold War.
Russia and China in May held their first joint naval exercises near Japanese-controlled islands that are at the center of a Chinese-Japanese rift. Russia further inflamed tension with Japan last week when it started military exercises in the disputed Kuril Islands.
But then, as Reuters adds...
- RUSSIA TESTS SURFACE-TO-AIR MISSILES IN MILITARY EXERCISES IN SOUTHERN RUSSIAN PROVINCE - STATE NEWS AGENCY RIA
- *RIA CITES RUSSIA DEFENSE MINISTRY SPOKESMAN ON MILITARY DRILLS
De-Escalation? Doesn't look like it...
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When the only thing you have is a prison planet, everybody who thinks differently than the central planners is branded a terrorist.
...MEGA Diversions everywhere You look friends....US Petrodollar's Life is at Stake...USSA/ISRAEL/UK vs Russia/China...each side, tugging on Europe...WINNER TAKES ALL
Europe is part of Asia.
Please, PLEASE test them on Kiev, Tel Aviv, London, Washington... just give us time to stock up on beans and 50,000 spf sun screen.
Under the circumstances, screw Montana. I hear Chile is nice at this time of the year. Yes...
I will live in Chile. And I will marry a round Chilean woman and raise rabbits, and she will cook them for me. And I will have a pickup truck... maybe a "recreational vehicle." And drive from state to state. Do they let you do that?
I just finished Reading Brave New World, I have never had my eyes opened wider.
Especially powerful is how the people are always happy.
And if you're not happy, they've got a noose to fix that.
If you were a woman would that gender translate into "never had my th-eyes opened wider" ?
Just wondering where the true female eye is !
Its just poetic extravagence to lighten the times of Ferguson crimes.
Puleese no offence meant to the gentler sex.
Sorry Europeans who are down arrowing me. There are only six continents. The seventh idea was invented by Europeans.
Europe Asia Africa are all mental constructions. They all share the same landmass.
And what's more, Asia as a concept was invented by Europeans (Greeks and then Romans), and largely means the land where the sun rises from (in relation to Europe, or more specifically in this case Greece).
It's a message to Obama to tell his handlers to back off; they're ready and we better remember it. Remember the entire Ukraine violence scam is another CIA Bay of Pigs operation, including the shoot-down of MH-17; The puppets' handlers are trying to start a war; and it's not funny.
the S300s, S400s, and Oniks missiles are proof of what can be achieved militarily when the end aim isn't merely to fatten the pockets of private companies. Truly nasty.
Reading the video piece title, at first thought it read "Mission Accomplished" in Russian, then checked again - it says: "Mission Possible". Regardless, it looks like they're mocking us.
Both countries better watch out for terrorists on their own soil, of the israeli variety
It's already happening in West China, they have had several "terrorists" attacks by "muslems"
But the Chinese and Russians now thoroughly understand the color revolution game. They know the best way to stop the USSA is to block their culture, and stop using the Fed Notes for trade.
"Culture" = 5th Column
"Trade Agreements" = Fed + NSA
"Free Trade" = Free Resources + Pollute away!
"Rogue" = Non-compliant in joining and serving Globalist Banksters
Funny how all becomes clear, once you apply the "Political Babelfish" and things are in clear text.
Putin don't play......
The KGB Officer vs the Community Organizer
Wonder how that's gonna work out?
Not convinced Russia and China can play nice, but if they can it is pretty much curtains for US hegemony. India/Pakistan become more pivotal.
Germany/India/Iran/brazil in that order.
but I agree with you in principle
Sure you can trust the Chinese, they don't have any desires for lands that the soviets stoli from them. Do they?
The Chinese are as tired of American Bullying as the rest of the world.
You got that right; tireder than some.
Plus they Chinese have (finally?) realized that they are next, right after Russia+Iran.
Don't think for a minute that Iran is "safe", just because it's off the front page news. Ultimately, the Russians and Chinese will HAVE to give Iran some of their own nukes (under direct control of own military), to make sure that they too have the "Sampson Option". Pakistan + Iran with nukes scare the shit out of ME Globalists -- The Usual Suspects.
They can call it CATO - Central Asian Treaty Organization. "For a strong and secure Central Asia"
of course they do, but it's 100 years from now......if we're still here (doubt it)
So everyone is doing this right now, but completely different people
In 100 years will be he ones actually doing something....not sure I follow that.
The real power, the power all oligarchs love to have behind them:
MILITARY
Who has military backing wins.
The military that is the most ready to use force, again, wins.
It is that simple, just that simple.
USE OF SHEER FORCE = VICTORY
Forget that idiotic thing about bankers controlling the world.
It's the mililary that controls the world, bankers, or unions or pharma or oil lobby simply try to ally with them, to be their best friends.
It is that simple.
As a typical example:
Putin has already killed few oligarchs and expropriated others.
What's left simply kiss his boots, otherwise polonium again.
Not so sure. It usually comes down to supply lines, population, stuff like that. Most wars are instigated by finances. Napoleon and Hitler both had superior militaries but lost on supplies.
Germany and the UK had a technology race during world war 2 which seemed important, but what mattered was the carpet of Russians coming over the plains, apparently unconcerned with their own casualties.
Agree, agree.
Logistics is part of military planning.
Defense of supply lines and natural resources is part of military planning
Defense in depth + Famous Russian Generals, January & February and of course sheer numbers have a quality all their own.
Germany's strategy was all about disrupting supply lines. It was somewhat easy to do with Britain, while Germany had naval advantage and before radar technology leaped forward in early 40's. But when it came to Russia, cutting off direct land supply lines was next to impossible. Sheer volume of stuff pouring in overwhelmed them, and like you said - complete disregard for human life on behalf of Russian generals. Anyone turning back or showing hesitation in the face of battle would be shot by their own - no exaggeration.
Hitler's forces, regardless of how well armed and informed, were spread thin. Desire to hold onto every piece of land captured proved detrimental, instead of advancing and retreating strategically like many Allies did. Some besieged German batallions weren't even dealt with until the fall of Berlin.
And oil... Germany simply couldn't keep enough of it flowing. and the longer the supply lines extended away from Berlin, the harder it was to deliver. Meanwhile, the Allies kept on pumping and pumping, experiencing no shortages.
German tech was somewhat sophisticated, while Russian tanks and planes could practically run on human sweat.
Putin put a stop to the Jewish Oligarchs raping Russia under Yeltsin, he won't let the Jewish Bolshevik Red Terror happen again. He is even attempting to stop the kosher mafia pillaging and destroying Ukraine, as they did with their Red Terror Revolution and later with their starving and murdering of 7-10 Million Ukrainians in the 1932-33 Holodomor.
It's why the Jewish corporate media in the West have always attempted to make him a pariah in the public perception.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3342999,00.html
http://davidduke.com/new-duke-video-israeli-media-reveals-the-secret-beh...
Putin: First Soviet government was mostly Jewish(85%)http://www.timesofisrael.com/putin-first-soviet-government-was-mostly-je...
Don't know about you or others, but I come from the school of thought that says: "Knowledge + tempered Strength beats Ignorance + Cruelty". Allow me to add to the former...
'Christianity' (the Christianity-As-We-Know-It) was a Roman Religion-for-Plebeian_Masses, not for the Patrician Elite. The obvious tells are the "Blessed are meek, the poor" and the "Turn the other cheek" texts in the New Testament. This philosophy of Submission to hierarchical power of all kind is what came out of the 4th century Council of Nicaea and resulting issue of The Bible.
The faith, religion and culture of the Jewish people is the polar opposite. It is the religion and culture of Rulers, not of the Ruled. Hence, you will find throughout history (even in the Bible) that Jews gravitate and work toward climbing to the top of the food-chain, the top of the Ruling Class. Given their small numbers, they could not do so overtly (via raw power), but had to do it covertly and subtly in a non-Jewish hierarchy.
Simply put: Christianity is the Religion of the Ruled, (Talmudic) Judaism is the Religion of the Rulers. Certainly Talmudic Judaism is for Rulers (Movers & Shakers), more so than Mosaic Judaism. Talmudic Judaism is what grew out of a school of Rabbis, a few centuries before Jesus, and they put their own stamp and views on the older Judaism from the days of Moses.
Another way of differentiating the two is: Mosaic Judaism in Nationalistic, Talmudic is Imperialistic. This leads to differences in the worldviews, and resulting policies and customs. Jesus was there to fulfill the Laws of Moses, and he was 100% opposed to the Talmudic branches of Judaism (Pharisees, Sadducees and Scribes), which he considered to be oppressive, evil and non-salvageable. Jesus was a fundamentalist, who put himself at the very center of Revised Mosaic Law -- simplified, new and improved, as it were.
To this day we see the adherents of the Talmudic branch seeking to exert their Imperialist influence over all others. They can be likened to the Invasive Species, not unlike The Borg. And Zionism, i.e. its dominant faction of 'Revisionist Zionism' which we now associated by default with the term 'Zionism', is a POLITICAL movement (and thus "fair game" for criticism), has become Talmudic/Imperialistic in its very core. Atheists, Agnostics and all Christians need to be aware of this.
Worse part is, Xianity was "configured and deployed" by Constantine & Friends in the 4th CE. Central Figure was fashioned from Attis, Horus, Seraphis, Mithra, Zeus, Dionysus, etc.; and given a Jewish Tie-in in an attempt to assimilate and supersede Judaism.
No history of theXian Movement in the 1st CE. Mebbe a "Chrestus" led movement afterwards. And... No Gospel till the 4thCE.
It's ironic to see a Religion built to homogenized the Empire - destroy/consume all other religions within - see the Empire through its final 20-30 years and lead the Region into the Dark Ages, resulting in a Technological regression(Roman Engineering and Medical Tech) that lasted approximately a thousand years.
http://jesusbirthermovement.tumblr.com/
jesusneverexisted.com
I talk with these two authors/editors once in awhile.
I wonder if the Neocons, Tea Party, and the delusional Ignorant are inducing the Social Collapse to the level akin to "The Marching Morons". With College/Trade Schools becoming more expensive and out of reach for the ever-increasing number of HS Dropouts, it just may...
And remember it was the Russians who had no problem losing around 40 MILLION dead in WW2.
Russians fighting under direct threat of being shot or having their families tortured, murdered, and/or thrown in the Gulags.
Nobel Laureate Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn's "200 Years Together" and "The Gulag Archipelago"
http://davidduke.com/solzhenitsyn-on-the-jewish-role-in-the-bolshevik-te...
http://www.mediafire.com/download/q7znvoozoucw9oq/Aleksandr+Solzhenitsyn...
14 Million, but who's counting.
Nonetheless, still a Holocaust, and not as Hollywood-worthy as the other one (The Shoa), it seems.
Flying terrorists! Flying terrorists everywhere!
They are being prudent. Unfortunately, this is the reality of what one has to do to protect oneself from the United States.
General Sline:
When we commissioned the Schmectel Corporation to research this precise event sequence scenario, it was determined that the continual stockpiling and development of our nuclear arsenal was becoming self-defeating. A weapon unused is a useless weapon.
"...but as one analyst notes, "it is kind of rare to have an anti-terrorist mission which uses battle tanks."
Rare, indeed. Well, except in democracy-spreading America's Global War on Terror.
precisely. cf Eastern Ukraine
tanks coming to Ferguson MO, next.
Good thing Russia is banning "Jack Daniel" imports.
America needs it more -especially after they read this one!
"On which side of this will the American people be? America’s heroic Founders, and our heroic soldiers who were killed in WWII, ask us this question from the beyond. Are we on this side, or on Obama’s? Each American, and especially each member of the U.S. House of Representatives, must ask and answer that question.
These are extraordinary times, if for no other reason that this is the first U.S. President who has ever been (despite his deceptively liberal rhetoric) a nazi in the White House. No other one has ever done this."... Eric Zuesse
And let me just add a smidge to that well articulated closing Rick... No other one has ever done this -to another nuclear super power!
http://rinf.com/alt-news/featured/sides-using-illegal-white-phosphorous-...
Is this PROPAGANDA ever going to end? I assume Russians are tired of Putins posturing, just as we are tired of our own here.
All part of the tit for tat theater. The US moves 12 F-15s into range of Crimea, Russians release some quality rocket porn. Got to keep the US squadrons remembering they haven't gone up against a real opfor since Korea.
Free Tibet !!!!!!!
Or is china a protected entity entitled to occupy , murder and genocide without media scrutiny ?
No it is not a protected entity. Only the US wears that mantle.
strange you say that steibu , as china has been able to occupy the land and genocide a distinct ethnic group without any media scrutiny.........
The Chinese government are pikers compared to the Manifest Destiny, MIC/banker-controlled government of the once-imagined free people of soft-powered Imperial America. It doesn't even really rate a comparison.
To those brainwashed by the lamestream believing Tibet was in any way apart from China and the Dalai Lama is a saint as his adorned projection propped by the MSM/Langley/DC-The City of London Axis, read on:
CIA In Tibet
Many have heard the rally cry "Free Tibet!", but few are aware of the past events that have shaped the Tibetan struggle against China's dominance. Exploring this little-known territory in a documentary currently in production, CIA in Tibet traces the hidden history of a secret CIA operation to back Tibet's fight for survival, one that lasted 16 years, to the rebellion that continues today. From CIA-supplied weapons, funding and training in guerrilla warfare to a conflicted Tibetan government and people under siege, the inner-workings behind the elusive mystery of both Tibet and the CIA uncover complex characters grappling with a history-changing geopolitical power struggle. The Dalai Lama, a central figure throughout, has been an icon of peace that has kept the Tibetan cause alive, but Tibet remains a political underdog facing overwhelming odds. How has CIA involvement in a Tibetan Buddhist world, a paradox in many ways, altered the course of Tibet's fate?
Produced by the daughter of a former CIA officer on the Tibetan Task Force, unique access to first-hand accounts combine with rare and recently declassified archival media, recent events in the US and India, and diverse perspectives from noted scholars and leading activists. Following Tibet's unrelenting struggle against what has become the second-most powerful country on earth, the film raises challenging questions on the justification for violence, the cost of freedom, and the evolving roles the US, Tibet and China play in our world.
Note: the original site (http://www.ciaintibet.com) now no longer exists; fortunately one may still be able to crawl back into the internet archive "time machine" to find some info, check its link in the title.
Tibet - A Reality Check (Frontline, 2000-09-02)
by Narasimhan Ram (September 2000)
Volume 17 - Issue 18, Sep. 02 - 15, 2000
India's National Magazine
from the publishers of THE HINDU
by N. RAM, a journalist from India's National Magazine from the publishers of THE HINDU
"The sky is turquoise, the sun is golden,
The Dalai Lama is away from the Potala,
Making trouble in the west.
Yet Tibet's on the move."
"FOR an Indian in Tibet who has no sympathy whatsoever for the Dalai Lama's separatist, revanchist and backward-looking agenda, this passable adaptation of an old Tibetan song seems to fit contemporary realities. A careful reading of the facts of the case reveals that this ideological and political agenda, pursued essentially through external agency, is three projects rolled into one - splitting Tibet from China, carving out a 'Greater Tibet' through ethnic cleansing, and restoring a moth-eaten theocracy , the ancient regime with some modest, if not quite cosmetic, 'democratic' changes. Each one of these projects can be seen to represent a pipe-dream, especially if one remembers that - unlike in the case of Kashmir - there is not a single country and government in the world that disputes the status of Tibet, that does not recognise Tibet as part of China, that is willing to accord any kind of legal recognition to the Dalai Lama's 'government-in-exile' based in Dharmasala."
"Dalai Lama; the links and synergies 'His Holiness' has managed to establish with Hollywood, the media, legislators, and other influential constituencies in the West; the plausible, yet demonstrably tendentious and false, propaganda material generated by this anti-China and anti-Communist campaign in the post-Cold War era; and (from an Indian standpoint, not the least troubling aspect) the Dalai Lama's continuing Indian base of operations."
"The Dalai Lama and the 'independence for Tibet' campaign have frequently referred to 'six million Tibetans' as a kind of proxy for 'Greater Tibet'. They counterpose this number to '7.5 million Chinese settlers' who, by implication, need to be expelled fr om what is described as 'the whole of Tibet'. They have also specifically put forward the revanchist political demand that 'the whole of Tibet known as Cholka-Sum (U-Tsang, Kham and Amdo)' should be 'restored' as a separate political entity. This is, by implication, a demand for breaking up three Chinese provinces, Sichuan, Gansu, and Yunnan, and the Qinghai autonomous region, and for ethnic cleansing."
Future Tibet
TEXT AND PHOTOGRAPHS BY N. RAM
Reality check 2007 shows that China is in firm control and `Tibetan independence' is a hopeless cause.
TEN years from now, a visitor to Tibet is likely to find it transformed into a region of middling prosperity. It is likely to have quite high living standards; a robust industrial base; modern agriculture and modernising animal husbandry; a well-educated, relatively young population; a high cultural level; a strong infrastructural spine and network supporting the development of a vast region; and active linkages and contacts with the rest of the world. It is more than likely that the autonomous region will enjoy political and social stability. It is certain not just that Tibet will be a still autonomous but much better integrated part of China but also that rising China will be very much in charge of Tibet's future. A significant part of `Tibet in Exile' could be back home, participating in shaping this future. A quarter century from now, possibly earlier, Tibet will reach the status of a developed society.
These predictions can be confidently made on the strength of two visits I have made to the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) over the past seven years.
The first visit, over five days in July 2000, gave me an opportunity to attempt some reality testing of Dharamsala's main campaign themes. In psychology and psychoanalysis, reality testing is defined as the technique of objective evaluation of an emotion or thought against real life, as a faculty present in normal individuals but defective in some psychotics. The technique is increasingly used in other contexts, for example in conflict resolution where the objective is to `adjust' conflicting perceptions that do not `conform to the realities of the situation.' In the case of China's Tibet, the reality testing was not against what the protagonists and victims of the `independence for Tibet' campaign felt or believed - in exercise of what is known as the `ego function' - but against the defining themes of the campaign.
The Chinese government views the Dalai Lama as a separatist political figure, with external links. The opportunity for another reality check came during a weeklong visit in June 2007 to the Tibet Autonomous Region, and, for comparative reference, some Tibetan autonomous areas in the neighbouring provinces of Qinghai and Yunnan. The process and effects of change were there for everyone to see and there were hundreds of visitors, from various parts of China and abroad.
Five factors stand out about contemporary Tibet.
The first is the rapid development of its economy, which in 2006 grew by no less than 13.2 per cent compared with 10.5 per cent for China as a whole. The second is the readily observable fact that the arrival of material prosperity, steady population growth, rises in living standards, education and skills training, and in general the process of modernisation are transforming life, work, and mindsets, especially of the young who make up the bulk of the Tibetan population. The third factor is a hard-won improvement in the Tibet Autonomous Region's internal and external political climate. The fourth is the dramatic leap in connectivity with the mainland that has come with the Qinghai-Tibet railway - a 1956-km engineering marvel that now links Xining, the capital of Qinghai Province, with Lhasa. The fifth factor is a widening credibility gap - between the make-believe world of the `independence for Tibet' movement and on-the-ground Tibetan realities, which are reflected in the Dalai Lama's scaled-down political demands for an `autonomous' solution within a sovereign and one China.
Why Tibet is part of China
"Beginning around the end of the 6th century, China's multinational society began to weave together its many fragmented ethnical strands into a reunified cultural force. In modern times, in addition to the majority ethnic Han nationality, China has 55 officially recognized national minorities living on 60 percent of its territory with a combined minority population of over 100 million among its total of 1.3 billion people. China's national minorities in modern times have a population equal to the combined total of France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Austria.
The history of China's relationship to Tibet dates from ancient times. Tibet has been an integral part of China since the 13th century.
The Tufans (Tibetians) are one branch of the Xi Qiang (West Qiang) tribes who founded a kingdom in Xizang (Tibet), the recorded history of which began only around Tang times in the early 7th century. Up until this time, they consisted of some 150 separate tribes who constantly quarreled among themselves and sought mediation periodically from succeeding courts of the Middle Kingdom (Zhongguo) since the Han dynasty (BC 206-220 A.D.)"
"The 13th Dalai Lama fled to Peking from a British expeditionary force in August, 1904. On April 27, 1906, China, represented by the dying Qing court, as suzerain of Tibet, agreed to the terms imposed by Britain not to permit third countries to send representatives, receive transportation or mining concessions, or occupy, purchase or lease territories in Tibet without British permission. It was a policy designed by Lord Curzon, previously the expansionist viceroy of British India The policy aimed generally to protect British interests in Tibet and specifically to contain tzsarist Russian expansion into the region.
All "unequal" treaties signed by the government of the Qing dynasty during the age of Western imperialism, including those concerning Tibet, were since declared null and void by all subsequent governments of China, nationalist and communist alike. Four years after the British-Qing dynasty agreement, on February 25, 1910, during the chaos of the nationalist revolutionary uprisings that finally established the nationalist Republic of China, the 13th Dalai Lama again fled, this time to British India."
Travel Blog - Tibet Photos
Strong opinions about Tibet are often held in the West, mostly by those who haven't been there and whose knowledge appears gleaned from misguided propaganda in the popular press.
The first adjective that would come to mind about Tibet is 'desolate'. Those who have been in the the far North (beyond the Arctic Circle), or above the tree line in the North American Rocky Mountains or the European Alps, will have some idea of the Tibetan landscape - which is 10,000 feet above the tree line.
There is nothing hospitable about the isolated conditions or climate in Tibet. Surely there are people who can see beauty in even the most desolate surroundings, but these brave detached souls would be most unlikely to choose that location for a summer home and certainly wouldn't live there by choice.
In much of the land, the severe climate means that nothing, or almost nothing, can grow. Tibet is a high-altitude desert, with little oxygen, almost no rainfall, and harsh temperatures. Only sparse numbers of the hardiest animals can survive there. No one in Tibet has ever seen a tree or even a bush. They likely have never seen fruit like cherries or peaches and would never have been able to afford them in any case.
The native Tibetans are not dissimilar to the aboriginal natives in North America, though they are for the most part less nomadic and more susceptible to education and societal structure. If we consider the white man's (European style) treatment of the North American native Indians and other aboriginals, it is very much to the benefit of Tibetans that they have not been 'saved' or 'freed' by Westerners.
Westerners appear to have a willful blindness about Tibet - The Shangri-La syndrome. Everyone wants to believe in some mythological, romantic fantasy about Tibet. It doesn't exist and it never did, but the myth seems to grow daily. The Western media impose on our imagination an image of some fabled theocracy where a reincarnated god rules over a peaceful people spinning prayer wheels.
The facts are different. The region has been under China's governance for many centuries, but was largely self-managed up to the 1950s when Mao went in to clean it up. Before that, Tibet was a slave colony, what the Western press euphemistically refers to as a 'feudal system'. It was no such thing. Virtually all the population was owned by the Dalai and other lamas and worked their entire lives without pay. The highest monks often owned 35,000 to 40,000 slaves. The prettiest girls (and boys) were confiscated to the monasteries for sex. Life was brutal and harsh, corrupt and punctuated by civil wars - the last in 1950. Life expectancy was barely 30.
Education was only for the monks because educated peasants are dangerous and expensive. Industry was forbidden because wealth of the population brought independence from religion. Torture was rampant. For anyone who cares to look, the internet is full of photos of the torture rooms at the Potala Palace and all the instruments used for gouging eyes and cutting leg tendons. You can easily find it. It's all there. The Dalai Lama was responsible for managing all of this. For the world to have given him a Nobel Peace Prize was an obscenity.
China has spent countless billions trying to bring Tibet out of the stone age. Education is now almost universal, the $4 billion Qinghai-Tibet railway brings in billions in tourist dollars and finally provides a way to move goods in and out. Tibet’s economic rate of growth and standard of living are higher now than in much of the rest of Western China.
CIA monk exposed - Youtube
To create Tibet conflict, the West granted the Noble prize to Dalai Lama to make Tibet popular on the news. It is not easy for a Buddhist and other religions to get any famous Award in Christian countries, then ask Dalai Lama to train people to protest and to self immolate.
You would also be free to do so if you owned a trillion in Treasury bills.. Anybody seen El-Erian lately? wonder what he is up too..
@ mister maghrebi: "Free Tibet !!!!!!!"
Is that per the Deli Lama in Hollywood?
Every Organized Religion (a tax-free biz model) is always looking to "Live long and prosper", and looking to keep or expand its Market Share. A market share of ~ 6 million people, I understand.
I would like to see the war effort against the individual oligarchs. The ones where they pit them in a cage and feed the losers to the tigers.
Russia and China always exchange technology,that's how China got nuclear weapons and they'll have the latest anti-aircraft systems as well.China openly said to the American Navy that they weren't afraid because they had neutron bombs.Fact is the last generation of Soviet fighter planes are far superior to F15's or anything else.There's more computer security now but basically for the last couple of decades the Russians and Chinese have had access to every technology ever invented in europe and America.They're not worried about the U.S.,they know the Fed and the private banking syndicate will bankrupt them anyways.You just have to do one thing,that's encourage Washington politicians to stay on track.
Israel sells US military secrets to the Chinese and others and have been doing so for decades, yet the US has given Israel at least 100 Billion USD in just DIRECT funding alone, and still the kosher dual-citizens across the political board have the chutzpah to push for releasing mega-destructive espionage criminals like Jonathan Pollard(Jewish), shows their real loyalties and allegiances.
U.S. Furious With Israel After Sale of Advanced Military Technology to Chinahttp://www.algemeiner.com/2013/12/22/u-s-furious-with-israel-after-sale-...
(1993)ISRAEL SELLS ARMS TO CHINA, U.S. SAYS
http://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/13/world/israel-sells-arms-to-china-us-sa...
U.S. military aid to Israel exceeds $100 billionhttp://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-1.611001
Yeah indeed.... The entire F35 program has been totally compromised by Israeli intelligence. No doubt they sold the fruits of their espionage to Red China and quite possibly Russia. The countries outside of America that are buying into the F35 program are either thoroughly corrupt or stupid beyond belief.
They might get the plane to work as advertised in the next decade or two but it will never be anything more than a cherry target for most opponents thanks to Israel. You can bet that if Israel does use the aircraft, it will be a heavily modified version.
A fighter jet with one engine is a death trap. Most pilots refuse to fly it if they are able too.
excellent,
Actually Russian aid stopped at late 1950s due to the conflict in the communist leadership struggle. USSR and China fought battles in 1960s and 1970s. Russia supported Vietnam during the long lasting border clashe between vietnam and China. China revenged with supporting Afganistan's fight against Russia by supplying weapons to the "freedom fighters". There might be exchange after that but China did get most of its millitary technology through its own research. It is very irrational to supply your enemy with millitary technology. China for a long time consider USSR bigger threat than the US. US formed alliance with China after kissinger's visit.
China's achievement in military is no small feat.
""it is kind of rare to have an anti-terrorist mission which uses battle tanks."
Yeah, any idiot knows you're supposed to use battle tanks for domestic crowd control! Duh!
I suppose next we'll see camo-wearing troops being deployed on the battlefield instead of patrolling our streets like they ought to be doing...
(sarc)
So here's how WW3 starts:
Banking crisis reemerges and sends some countries into a state of civil war (particularly the US).
Massive cyber attack by Chinese and Russians on Western powergrid, banks, websites, communication, military bases, businesses including lots of other socially undermining false news reports.
Chinese agents masquerading as biology/med students at Western universities unleash chemical and biological attacks.
Chinese had stealthily shipped massive numbers of infantry to support Russians in a European invasion which begins during the turmoil of economic collapse and cyber attacks.
Limited nuclear exchange occurs.
Everything falls to shit for everyone.
USAF space based weapons platforms fire Depleted Uranium Sabot 'God Rods' at the Sino-Russian command bases.
The NWO fully emerges from the ashes.
Such treaties don't apply to hypervelocity rods, though they strike with the force of a tactical nuke, they produce no radioactive (and far less political) fallout. The US Space Command (where we always claimed our Dad worked even before we knew it existed) says they plan to have this capability by 2025.
Read more: http://www.cracked.com/article_16477_5-famous-sci-fi-weapons-that-theyre-actually-building.html#ixzz3AqrWXsgA
Plenty of articles claiming this is all bunk, the sum of which is:
why spend billions/trillions to fire a steel pipe to earth from outer space, just think how ridiculous that sounds, when you can just plant a few bombs here and there.
and who follows titties anyway.
exactly
Yes, especially with mini nukes now in all kinds of delivery systems. Suitable size for a bunker, building, airfield, town, you name it. Almost certainly already field proven at at least Bagdad Airport
If the full item on the link doesn't worry you you shouldn't be on ZH. If true, and it seems well reserched, it is one of the scarier bits of information around. You HAVE to read to full article.
The U.S. military used neutron weapons in the Battle of Baghdad, says a former commander of Iraq’s Republican Guard. And at least one retired U.S. Army officer is backing up his charge.
In an April 9 interview reported by Al Jazeera, Saifeddin Fulayh Hassan Taha al-Rawi says that, “U.S. forces used neutron bombs during their assault on Baghdad airport before the April 9, 2003, capture of the Iraqi capital.”
The bombs incinerated about 2,000 elite Republican Guard troops but left the buildings and infrastructure at the airport intact, he added. (aljazeera.net)
The neutron bomb is designed to produce a minimal blast while releasing a massive wave of neutron and gamma radiation, which can penetrate armor or several feet of earth. This radiation is extremely destructive to living tissue. The bomb has been in the U.S. arsenal for decades but has never been used in combat before.
A BBC News article on March 4, 2002, said the U.S. was using thermobaric weapons in Afghanistan, and described how they employ a combination of heat and pressure, “distributing a very fine cloud of explosive material throughout the target which is then ignited. The heat and pressure effects are formidable—soldiers caught in the blast could have the air sucked from their bodies and even their internal organs catastrophically destroyed.”
“The best evidence that I have from international sources, scientific sources, is that our position was becoming untenable at the Baghdad airport and we used a neutron warhead, at least one. That is the big secret of Baghdad airport.
“If one looks into international data, there are reportings of enhanced radiation of some livestock, and of human metabolic effects—death and disease. It explains why, after the Battle of Baghdad, we got fragmentary stories of things like truckloads of dirt being moved out and moved in. It made no particular sense at the time, until one puts it into perspective, as a decontamination operation. Again, that part of the Battle of Baghdad, the fact that we went nuclear, explains a lot of things that came out afterwards and also explains why it is that it had to be covered up.”
Whether it was a neutron bomb or the AGM-114N, the Pentagon used some sort of Weapon of Mass Destruction on Baghdad airport.
“On May 15th, 2003, just a few weeks after the action at Baghdad airport, Donald Rumsfeld praised the new weapon. … Although officially described as ‘metal augmented’ or even ‘hyperbaric,’ the new warhead is not distinguishable from thermobaric weapons which produce the same sort of enhanced blast with a lower overpressure and longer duration for more destructive effects. Like many thermobarics, the AGM-114N used finely powdered aluminum. The military are generally quiet about thermobarics because they have received such bad press. Human Rights Watch criticized them because they ‘kill and injure in a particularly brutal manner over a wide area.’ “
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/08/15/vt-nuclear-education-nukes-in-ir...
I was there when we took Saddam International Airport. I stayed there until we left on the 10th of June 2003. I didn't see any Nuke go off. The dead guys had bullet holes in them. They even shot one poor basturd on the shitter right behind a maintenance hangar.
Mini nukes. I hope Dr. Evil and Mini Me don't get ahold of any of those.
Aw, quit yer moaning and buy another (Made in China) "SUPPORT OUR TROOPS" car magnet!
Shop till you drop and pay your taxes. Blog (so we know what you really think), watch TV, and drink & eat stuff. Be all you can be. They hate us for our Free Dumbs.
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What goes up, CAN come down.
As one of the ways to combat hostile Space Aliens, the US Gov came up with a clever plan in the 1950s (an idea from the renowned physicist Edward Teller): Using small nukes in a 100 m deep well, that's filled with H2O and topped with a large steel discuss, is used to detonate and turn the water into a steam-explosion so strong, that is sends up the metallic disk flying straight up at > 40,000 mph. If timed correctly, and having a small spread of them (shotgun principle), the Mass x Speed (mv^2) creates a Plasma Torpedo that would annihilate ANY spaceship and its "force field". And given its spectacular velocity, there is no time to "get out of the way". It is The Ultimate Cannon. Ground-based.
One could take down a space station or military satellite with ease, as a far smaller mass is required: Perhaps one nuke, to fire several wells. Although this has not yet been tested, calculations show that even a Moon-base could be wiped out this way. / Which is why Aliens prefer the Dark Side of The Moon. The way Pink Floyd and its followers do also. /sarc
Of course, if aimed horizontally at just the right angle and coming out of a long tunnel in a high offshore cliff or mountain, it could take out an entire military base and its aircraft carrier fleet in, say, the Persian Gulf.
-Kirk out
Problem is that TEAM_USA is notorious for using Depleted Uranium - banned as a WMD by the UN - for such exploits. We'll see how that plays out.
'How WW3 starts'.....hell just hack Comcast NFL package and Netflix, disable Xbox's...that alone will have US cities burning to the ground.
A few well placed emps would disable the power grid for years. It is projected that 90% population would die for lack of water within 2 years. Wouldn't need to invade under such circumstances, unless to secure certain resources.
Russia and China are holding joint military exercises near Astrakhan? That's right on the Ukrainian border, at least on Jen Psaki's map.
Nice touch calling it "Peace Mission-2014."
and according to Jen that's right in the middle of the US's spehere of interest
how dare those commies have troops practise in their own countries!
If this is recent.....
They have nothing to worry about....
It is August here in the northern hemisphere and they still have snow!!!!!!!!!!!!
No leaves on the trees.... just an old propaganda tape or it is really cold there and they are members of the ruskies for global warming group....
And this "Jakarta Globe" has its article sourced entirely from BLOOMBERG :-) lol
just saying
I'm in southern China. Usually from Shenzhen I can access google and sitonmyfacebook without a vpn. Now even my vpn won't stay connected for more than five minutes. Typically that means that something political is happening but probably just the government trying to close down hk.
Seriously there should be a ban on old, ugly men, desperately trying to retain their already disappeared relevance, from holding any public office. They should not be allowed to make decisions. The world would be a more peaceful place.
One of the advantages of having old leaders, ugly or not, is that they have lived long enough to have seen some of the nastier things that man is capable of doing to man and generally try to avoid doing again.
On a financial front there is a whole genearation who have never seen rising interest rates/falling bond prices. How are they going to handle that when it happens? Are the Algos they have programmed going to work or will they just fold?
You might want your leaders to be in their 40s but being 60 sounds a whole lot safer to me.
yep, testosterone levels are a little lower, life has kicked you around a little, you have seen just how nasty man can be towards man and you have learnt to roll with the punches and know when to walk away, you just don't get there until your 50's
China’s President Xi Jinping, the head of the Central Military Commission, has made it a priority to better prepare the People’s Liberation Army for combat, while Russia’s Vladimir Putin has embarked on the biggest overhaul of his country’s armed forces since the Cold War.
Nice one US state department, how are all those 'if we just keep pushing he will fold' strategies of yours going now?
Look! They are beginning to pay attention to that man behind the curtain. This is getting serious. We gotta do something!
WORLD WAR FUCKING III MOTHER FUCKERS! RUN FOR IT!
Note to Malaysian Airlines: Do not fly within 500 miles of any of these places.
"it is kind of rare to have an anti-terrorist mission which uses battle tanks."
If the US can drop fully armed troops into Iraq and swear blind they are only advisers, then you can carry out anti terrorist training drills with main line battle tanks.
When Russia and China have joint exercises is the default language English? The world is going to be a strange place when we are gone.
"soldiers transferred to Trans-Carpathia to put an end to seperatist desires there." "1,200 soldiers are being sent today."
This news just came across on a very reliable Canadian Twitter Feed. It caught my attention because just two days ago the same Twitter account linked a video speech given by Russian Speaking and Hungarian Speaking representitives of the local government there. In the dual language speech. it was made clear that this Trans-Carpathian region of Ukraine would no longer send it's young men to Kiev's military draft call up. Mentioning that 100 local boys are already listed as killed in combat, with Kiev demanding 80,000 local young men report for the war!
They went on to declare Kiev a fascist state with no right to rule, and that as of two days ago, Trans-Carpathia will NOT accept dictates or secret police attacks from Kiev.
In the 10 minute speech, The Russian and Hungarin ethincs vowed that they had lived in peace for 1,000 years and would unite together to fight the Kiev Fascist EU coup government.
Anyone expecting Ukraine to settle down, is not following events! Now Kiev has reacted sending armed Army units to attack the people in Trans-Carpathia. A second front is now opened!
The USA and EU will condem the people of Trans-Carpathia as terrorists and aid Kiev in killing them. My thought's on this. Is fuck the EU and Fuck Obama and his Washington DC Neocon murder gangs.
In the inquisition, first they describe to you how they will torture you. Second, they show you the instruments. Third if you have still not confessed, they use them on you until you confess or die.
Its not about how you die. Its about how you live.
Astra.....KHAAAAANN!!
I just like saying it.
What is terrorism?
The Axis of Evil, the United States, England, Israel, and NATO are terrorist states leveling nations under their oppressive terrorism.
So what are the Chinese and Russians doing? Preparing a perfectly normal response to an untenable terrorist situation brought on by the Axis of Evil, the United States, England, Israel, and NATO.