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"Go Now!": China Threatens US Spy Planes In South China Sea

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There's trouble brewing in The South China Sea, where Beijing has been using "scores of dredgers" to turn reefs into islands in the Spratly archipelago. Atop the new islands, China has been busy building things like cement plants and 10,000 foot airstrips capable of landing fighter jets and surveillance aircraft. 

China shares contested waters in the area with the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei and Taiwan, and the US has made it all too clear that China's reclamation efforts constitute an unacceptable attempt to "use sheer size and muscle to force countries into subordinate positions." That, along with reports that Washington is looking into options for countering China's island-building project, set up a contentious scenario that culminated in Beijing advising the US to "refrain from provocative action" in the area. 

Having thus set the stage, we bring you the following clip which shows what happens when US spy planes come a little too close to China's newly created military outposts.

 

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Wed, 05/20/2015 - 22:32 | 6115906 44MagnumPrepper
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ALL HAIL CHUMBA

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 22:39 | 6115925 Deathrips
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You go home round eye!

 

Are they going to sell some treasuries or just come out of the closet with the gold holdings...if not its just more bs.

 

RIPS

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 22:59 | 6115990 Comte de Saint ...
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About time the emerging superpower takes concrete steps to show a decaying US NAVY who the real boss is.

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 23:06 | 6116017 LetThemEatRand
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The MIC is controlled by the same oligarchs who make money in China selling us goods we used to make here.  This is all bullshit to keep the American public sleeping under their beds and happily funding the MIC aka oligarchs with tax dollars and Fed printing, while people continue to shop at Walmart and wonder why anyone would pay higher prices.

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 23:23 | 6116051 MonetaryApostate
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Guberments....   Sum Dum Fuks....

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 00:18 | 6116123 Manthong
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The MIC/SIC does not give a hoot about the expednables there.

The holes in the sky they drill is a waste of time, money and effort.

It's just another opportunity for conflict.

Been there, done that.

That P-8 is way cool and techie.. but

I would prefer lower and slower in a turboprop.

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 00:42 | 6116228 Paveway IV
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This is just crazy. The damn Chinese are just ruining these atolls that are nowhere near their country and turning them into giant, remote military bases - for what?? Just look at the huge airport landing strip dwarfed in this picture by the rest of their gigantic military complex. They must be trying to take over the world!

Whut?? That's Diego Garcia? Oh... nevermind, then.

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 00:56 | 6116239 Bokkenrijder
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Proves once again that Russia is not the problem, unless those Chinese are all slant eyed Russians of course... ;-)

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 00:58 | 6116242 Laowei Gweilo
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gotta admit, they learn from the best

 

and do a great job copying... these are some pretty damn impressive islands

 

arrogant as hell tho .... even most of the 25-35 affluent mainlanders i know think it's pretty arrogant and too aggresive

 

and they'd probably care if it was encroaching on US or Russian or Canadian waters... they Phillipines? lol they think it's rude but they also don't give a fuck

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 01:13 | 6116261 Oh regional Indian
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Ahhhaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaa! Haaaahahahaaaa....

"unacceptable attempt to "use sheer size and muscle to force countries into subordinate positions."

I mean, y'know, what does one say?

Hippo Crazy!

;-) 

https://aadivaahan.wordpress.com/2015/01/23/till-the-end-if-you-have-the...

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 07:06 | 6116613 Latina Lover
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Perhaps the Chinese are fed up with endless US threats to blockade their oil shipping lanes?

Besides, the Chinese may be hundreds of miles away from their coastline but the USSA is worried about islands more than 6000 miles from California?

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 07:40 | 6116667 Oh regional Indian
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All this is supposedly a play/ploy to thwart the Trans Asia New Grand Silk Route (the land bridge).

Most of the fighting will happen at sea though. 

All at sea...

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 01:17 | 6116265 Bananamerican
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"The MIC is controlled by the same oligarchs who make money in China selling us goods we used to make here"

No. Not quite.

They are two different sets of amerikan/western Oligarchs...AND the Chinese DO have their OWN interests, aided and abetted by one set of those indifferent amerikan/western oligarchs.

However, neither the MIC folks OR the WalMart gang give a flying fuck about the American People to be sure...They DO have that in common

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 02:16 | 6116341 old naughty
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since 'horse face' was just by, on a land visit, so he represents one set and not the set who come flying by snooping?

weren't the drone set owned by...?

Thu, 05/28/2015 - 22:13 | 6142295 Aguila2011
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Building all those airstrips at sea level ... guess that means the ChiComs don't believe in Global Warming and predictions of sea levels rising any time soon!  What's Al Gore, Barry and the EU got to say about that?

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 23:28 | 6116063 SumTing Wong
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Wait until the Chinese show up in the Gulf of Mexico...

"All your waters are belong to us."

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 23:59 | 6116128 Manthong
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um.. maybe that is why King Hussein is pivoting to Cuba.

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 04:10 | 6116444 AIIB
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Wait until they show up in invisible subs in Los Angeles harbor... Oh Wait!

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 06:12 | 6116562 Manthong
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“and the rockets red glare”

“different sets of amerikan/western Oligarchs.”

Modern China was designed by the same powers that set up the Fed and thinks that they can globalize and control the whole F’n world.

They are going to be in for a surprise.

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 01:18 | 6116267 Counterpunch
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paranoid, facile, and wrong.

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 03:44 | 6116422 Eirik Magnus Larssen
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That's a rather ironic statement from a far-right agitator who harps about "white genocide" all day long.

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 02:50 | 6116370 Zero Point
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Media were allowed on the plane..... to sell the public more planes.

Go MIC, and their MSM sales force.

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 06:06 | 6116555 Ace Ventura
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+100......would also add the MSM NWO Marketing Team is not only selling the sheeple on the need for more MIC hardware, but also on the need to go 'kinetic' with the latest recreational war. Cuz the Chinese and Russians are buzzing our noble spy planes, building bases all over the world, etc. Oh, and those dastardly chinese are also manipulating their currency! The friggin NERVE! That's like....cheating and shit!

Oh yeah, and terrorists and stuff.

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 23:16 | 6116035 Cistercian
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I especially like the quote about the unsinkable Chinese aircraft carrier...some poster here said exactly that some time ago.......

Like I said then...it is an ominous development.

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 00:21 | 6116196 Manthong
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unsinkable.. like the almighty FRN.

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 11:12 | 6117349 schadenfreude
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I proudly present our new aircraft carrier "Unsinkable II"

And what happened to Unsinkable I ?

Oh never mind.

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 01:32 | 6116289 luckylongshot
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"unacceptable attempt to "use sheer size and muscle to force countries into subordinate positions."...Can the US say anything more hypocritical than this?

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 09:38 | 6116983 exi1ed0ne
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They hate us for our freedoms?

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 07:13 | 6116628 HolyfieldsOtherEar
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Those islands would look a lot nicer with a Filipino flag flying over them. Uncle Sam needs to be a good ally to the Philippines and Vietnam and turf the Chinese out.

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 23:00 | 6116003 aurum4040
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Its now CNN not only propagandaing i mean prepping the mainstream  a war with russia but also with China. I and many others on this blog an others have known about China's SCS militarized infrastructure for some time now. Its very far from BS. Well only if you consider being owed nearly a trillion dollars that you will never receive back merely BS? 

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 23:47 | 6116106 Freddie
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My God.  A US Navy plane filled with white males and one female pilot and CNN is not demonizing the whites like they normally do.   Amazing.

I do not watch shit TV or Hollywood's shit but CNN is often playing in places like airports, post offices, restaurants, airliners and other places.  It is always about some race baiting story, noble blacks and evil whites and other race baiting memes.

Now CNN is in full war mode.  What a joke.

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 00:46 | 6116218 Manthong
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You probably do not want to know this, but..

In the good old days before liberalized women invaded the front lines of military airplanes there were cans to accept excretions.

Now that everything is sanitized and up-jet there is likely a blue room and a mug truck waiting at the destination airfield.

The girls are good with this.

But although they can squat over a modern blue swoosh pot, they will never have the memory of leaking in a can and then crawling out to the greenhouse nose.

 

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 04:16 | 6116447 AIIB
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The most hysterical thing was back in '09, about a month after Obama in White House, rug muncher Rachel Maddow was in Afghanistan (with full on flack gear & helmet) doing this whole tour, whereby the conclusion was, in solemn & subdued tones... "I get it now"...

 

Get what bitch? Did they shove a baggie of opium up your ass?

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 06:23 | 6116565 Manthong
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Wizard of Ounces..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RG2keYgBiZc

What color were her slippers in the book?

 

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 07:34 | 6116656 AIIB
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You get "HOPIUM" from growing "POPPY"

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 09:09 | 6116906 janus
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and you get opium from growing poppies.  it's so crazy, bitchez -- here's a little open secret: there are many species of poppy whose seeds are widely available and whose flower-pods yield an abundant amount of tar.  cultivation is a 'grey' area.  it is legal to grow opium poppies ('bread' poppies, for example, are a high-yielding variety), but you cannot scar the sides for the purpose of extracting the opium tar...which, when dried, is raw opium, has a 'flowery' taste when smoked, and will make you for a moment believe wild balderdash -- like that all of mankind can sit around a camp-fire holding hands & singing cum-by-yah (or so i'm told; janus just does a lot of reading).  nevertheless, Keats, Byron, Colridge and many others did some rather exception work when under the poppy's poisonous spell -- and many of them died prematurely because of it.  but that is not to say that opium and all its derivatives isn't an ominous poison.  it is a real demon of an intoxicant.  it is almost mystical in the spell it casts.  almost as if it has a sentient malevolence. i do not exaggerate.

and yet, it remains the most effective pain killer on planet earth.

many poisons are medicines up until the point of poison's titration to detriment.  

so here's the thing, supposing one of a curious mind, a titrator who likes to tinker with perception and such, were to get it in mind that making 'poppy tea' from the dried flower pods of any among the 'papavar somniferium' genus were a consequence free activity; let's say he were for some reason able to persuade himself that this thing wasn't 'addictive'; perhaps by using specious inductive reasoning such an one may potentially say to himself, 'well, janus, it isn't refined or processed in any way...it's gotta be as innocuous as weed...right from the ground, God's gift to an aching back without any nasty side effects.'  oh, woe betide ya, ya stupid-stupid simpleton wooing your weakness & inclination to vice with such sophistry.

and, gentlemen, these pods were easy to buy on ebay for a long-long time.  it was amazing at first...a ten hour fix of splendid bliss sans consequence.  and then, well, you go on a trip and take it for granted that you're not addicted to anything.  approximately one day into this trip you come down with an excruciating bout of the flu...or something similar.  you at first can't quite figure it out.  i mean, you're sick as a dog; but you're at the same time aware that you're not 'sick'.

and then it hits you.  and then you know you've got to knuckle under and go cold turkey.  it isn't fun; it takes time; it hurts; it takes a lot of resolve and discipline; but it's more than worth it (or so i'm told...i just read lots of stuff).  any man that would let his will be governed by a substance is lacking in self respect.  i wish it weren't so; but it is.  

this is coming from someone who's rather candid about his indulgences in and weakness for this or that; but, metaphorical allusions to monetary policy aside for a moment, the levels of opioid addiction in this nation is frightening.  when 'folks' are abetted in their delusional rationalization that the wanton and wreckless abandonment of the will to opium by doctors who allow them to interpret their actions as therapeutic 'medication' rather than junkiedom and smack-heads represents of perversion of this national soul which is everywhere evident.

we've tried everything else with drugs...i say just legalize them all (though some of them should be limited to distribution in "red-light" districts.  let vice be vice and let its consequences be on vivid display.  if people want to destroy themselves, so be it.   maybe addiction isn't the disease; perchance the junkies are themselves the disease.

that shit snatches peoples' souls...it's subsumed the being of many a good man...several known by yours truly.

"there is a way that seems right to a man; but the end of that way is death."

young Zealots: the only things you can get away with moderate consumption and not have to in the exchange sacrifice your soul are beer, wine & a lil herb...maybe i'm wrong on the herb; but i don't think i am.  in moderation, i cannot find any real and catastrophic flaw with it.  even so, young Zealots, even these have very real consequences...but for some of us, it's nice to insulate yourself from a sick and depraved world with the occasional beer and a bong toke.

and to whatever extent and for whatever reason, i think these decisions should belong to me...and, yes, even 'you' (not necessarily 'you' AIIB, more like 'you' and all the 'yous' out there just like 'us').  i get nauseous with this 'fibromyalgia' bullshit -- sounds like withdrawal pains to me (or so i'm told...i just read lots of stuff).

this country is eventually going to reap what it's sown...it's an immutable law of nature -- and returning again to the metaphorical reference to monetary policy, this shit is going to hurt when we have to withdraw; and we're going to have to precipitously withdraw -- cold turkey.  'tapering' is only a momentary step before you take the plunge...like when ripping off a band-aid, and right before you rip the first hairs smart from the strain of it's sticky adhesive (okay, that's enough extension of the metaphor).  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZcQ5e761AY

we used to do a little/

then a little wouldn't do it/

so the little got more & more...

janus

 

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 09:42 | 6116999 WillyGroper
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@janus

>>>>>>this 'fibromyalgia' bullshit

funny you mention this farce. i had a doc try & prescribe lyrica to me & that was after showing him an xray of a broken C4 with C3 sitting right on top of it with 3 bone spurs. i called him on it.  then come to find out from a doc's for dollars watchdog site that lists dr's accepting gifts from pharma (only in escess of $250) he just happened to be gifted in excess from Forest Labs. you guessed it...maker of lyrica.

it's a big club & we ain't in it.

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 07:51 | 6116691 janus
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Manthong, your comment above took me back...memory lane:

to pee on the MH-53s there was a little funnel attached to a tube that vented out the port side.  and here's a prank that never grew stale: anytime a new arrival went up for a flight, you'd instruct him to communicate with the flight engineer through the "back-up com system" (the pee funnel) and you'd make up some reason why the dave-clarks were incommunicado...you'd start barking at him and yelling, "airman, speak the fuck up! FE can't fuckin hear your pre-pubescent squeaking.  no, put your mouth right over the rim...fuckin yell at him...if he doesn't know that the rear hover stick is engaged, we're all gonna die, and your poor mother will go to her grave knowing that her son was too vaginal to bark through back-up com!"

they'd always cup their mouths deep into the pee funnel, desperate to get the SOS to the flight engineer...horror stricken & panicked.  

those things were so nasty...calcified with piss residue going back to nam...much like our whole squadron.

in all of HGS & SOS there were like, maybe, 5 or 6 females outta like 300 or so of us...none of them were pilots, FEs, crew chiefs or adventurous rakes with a taste for local flavor.  great group of guys...even our gals -- air force had the best chics of all the services.  but, fathers, probably a bad idea to send your daughters off on TDY with adventurous rakes like janus...not really a setting well-suited to chastity and whatnot.

anyway, the osprey is a piece of shit, a death-trap, an MIC boondogle and signaled the end of a glorious era in special ops.

gentlemen, this was an amazing machine:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgrO_m0F9cw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhWvA88qfXc

50 cal in the rear; a 30 cal mounted both port and starboard...a dinosaur retro-fit with some cool electronics and such.  a masterpiece of aeronautical engineering done back in the days when slide rules and clay models formed the germ of our boys' genius for design...and still, with all their fancy computer modeling, they can't do better than airframes like the 53 and fixed wings like the B52.  America sure was something back when being exceptional didn't make you an enemy of the state.

green feet ghosts,

janus 

 

 

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 10:51 | 6117268 STP
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Speaking of people urinating in military aircraft, having an all woman air crew, may save the Pentagon hundreds of millions of dollars!  You see, women sit, while men stand.  Men standing, tend to splash and spray, especially in turbulence.  That splashing and spraying soaks the blankets, which in turn, soaks the aluminum skin and structure of the air vehicle.   On a C-130 Hercules, it is not an uncommon thing, to replace the entire rear stringer, supporting the rear cargo ramp on both sides, because of this corrosion.  That peice is 18 feet long and extends from the bottom of the ramp, to right underneath the tail!  It is a big job to remove this, as it is curved at the bottom, then straightens out, alongside the ramp.  This is the main structural component, holding that whole section together.

Fri, 05/22/2015 - 01:52 | 6120262 IronForge
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Women just sit? I take it that you've never had a Golden Shower as part of a Mile High Club Repertoire.

I haven't either; and don't plan on it - just had to mention it - ROTFL!!!

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 23:36 | 6116073 Kirk2NCC1701
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Chumba  Wumba?  Tub Thumping time.

BTW, these guys must be having a lot of boating accidents, to be trying to recover their Precious from the sea floor. 

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 01:13 | 6116258 BullyBearish
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It's going to be fun being the underdog again...just like 1776

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 01:28 | 6116283 robertsgt40
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Just curious.  How far is the China Sea from tge Gulf of Tonkin?  

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 07:03 | 6116610 researchfix
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And why is it called China Sea?

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 22:36 | 6115920 yrad
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"Please go away"

I 2nd that!

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 22:37 | 6115921 Chuck Knoblauch
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Run Forrest, run!

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 22:38 | 6115927 dirtyfiles
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we can and you can not

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 22:39 | 6115931 Arrowshot
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Started calling 30 minutes out. Time to send a carrier down for a bit of freedom of navigation exercises. Wonder if China will make an announcement about their gold reserves tomorrow!!

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 22:59 | 6115999 deja
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It's not how much gold, it's how many times it's been rehypothecated.

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 22:40 | 6115932 Parsecs Taxi
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I read on CNN about how pathetic and yet provocative the Chinese are. They have to make islands out of sand 300 miles out in the ocean, and they have to work weekends to get it done. They don't even have something like Hawaii, or the Philippines. Losers.

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 22:55 | 6115985 Rattling Bones
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Yet.

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 23:53 | 6116116 Freddie
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Wasn't it Dr. Jim Willie who said the whole JP Morgue building next to the NY Fed in NYC was bought by China.  What really happened was the Chinese foreclosed on the Fed.  I have not heard any more about it.

80 feet below Manhattan - the Chinese seee Yellen and the Ben Bernank on the conveyor belt between the NY Fed and the JP Morgue for hyper-rehypothicating gold.   Chinese yell "You Go!"

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 22:40 | 6115933 stormsailor
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shouldn't they be spying on us anyway, why are they bugging china?

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 22:42 | 6115941 reader2010
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Where is John McCain when you need his fat ass in the cockpit?

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 23:06 | 6116019 Caleb Abell
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The Chinese would love to see him in the cockpit.  The only planes he ever destroyed belonged to the US navy.

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 23:54 | 6116121 Freddie
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How many sailors did he hp kill on the Forrestal?  I his old man admiral father killed dozens of American sailors by selling them out on the USS Liberty.

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 23:24 | 6116054 Buster Cherry
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We would be in need of our pilots shooting at the enemy, not our own guys....

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 23:32 | 6116071 black calx
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Stuck in the ME buying refreshing drinks for his ISIS buddies.

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 23:44 | 6116101 rubiconsolutions
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"Where is John McCain when you need his fat ass in the cockpit?"

 

He's still busy looking for fellow POW's in Vietnam. Oh wait....

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 01:02 | 6116251 TheFourthStooge-ing
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.

Where is John McCain when you need his fat ass in the cockpit?

When he's with Lindsey Graham, McCain's fat ass is the cockpit.

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 02:20 | 6116343 AGuy
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"Where is John McCain when you need his fat ass in the cockpit?"

Were you referring to McCain's "Wet start" that  killed 134 Sailors and nearly sunk the USS Forrestal in 1967?

 

 

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 04:25 | 6116454 richiebaby
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We don't need McCain blowing up anymore aircraft carriers

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 22:44 | 6115948 skbull44
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"...constitute an unacceptable attempt to "use sheer size and muscle to force countries into subordinate positions."..."
Stop already, that's the U.S.'s foreign policy schtick...
http://olduvai.ca

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 22:51 | 6115971 MonetaryApostate
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Playing the world police is stupid for one, secondly, our government is hypocritical to the extreme, and last but not least....

Why start shit, just because you think you are bigger?  CHINA IS 200 FUCKING MILLION SOLDIERS STRONG!!!!

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 22:54 | 6115980 e_goldstein
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  CHINA IS 200 FUCKING MILLION SOLDIERS STRONG!!!!

 That's what claymores are for.

 

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 23:21 | 6116047 angel_of_joy
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You wouldn't know a claymore from a corn cob, the way you're talking...

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 23:55 | 6116104 e_goldstein
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 Explosives researcher Norman A. MacLeod used it to design a weapon to counter human-wave assaults, such as those waged by Chinese soldiers against Americans in the Korean War. 

http://www.historynet.com/m18a1-claymore-mine-enemy-troops-fall-to-piece...

I'm happy to help because pompous and ignorant are no way to go through life, jackass.

 

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 00:31 | 6116216 Abbie Normal
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And do you know why they would send thousands of soldiers to their deaths in human waves?

Because they were the formerly nationalist soldiers left behind when Chiang Kai-Shek retreated to Taiwan.

Just like Russians, the Chinese don't do anything without a plan.

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 00:56 | 6116240 e_goldstein
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I did not know that.

Thank you, Abbie.

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 01:14 | 6116262 post turtle saver
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"Everyone has a plan 'til they get punched in the mouth." - Mike Tyson

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 06:06 | 6116554 Max Steel
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and usa get theirballs kicked with plans.

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 21:06 | 6119689 jyl
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Show me a creditible link or your are lying! There were also no "formerly nationalist soldiers" except poor farmers and laborers conscripts. Can not beleve people give her up votes without creditible data to back up. There were never such a claim, and there was no "formerly nationalist soldiers" after civil war.

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 04:47 | 6116471 The Ingenious G...
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To e-goldstein

China currently has 2.3 million soldiers, not 200 million.

But anyway the two numbers aren't that far off.

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 06:26 | 6116576 Ace Ventura
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2.3 million sounds a bit low for the Chinese military, but probably close to accurate for the US military. IIRC, the Chinese military fields about 4.6 million troops. It's worth noting both sets of preceding numbers involve active and active-reserve troops.

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 06:46 | 6116590 css1971
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The Chinese army is subordinate to the Chinese Communist party, not the Chinese state. The balance of power within the country is subtly different.

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 23:04 | 6116012 Caleb Abell
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No kidding.  I cracked up when I read that line.  No doubt, the asshole who said it didn't even realize how perfectly it fit the US.

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 22:47 | 6115958 indaknow
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Who the fuck is writing these headlines tonight?

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 22:59 | 6116000 WTFUD
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you mean the quadruple entendre ?

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 22:47 | 6115959 Cityzerosix
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Order 227!

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 22:50 | 6115967 Dave Thomas
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Why does it look like their patches are attached by Velcro?

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 22:57 | 6115992 tarabel
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Because they are. Easier to change when they get transferred to another unit.

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 23:19 | 6116041 Dave Thomas
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Are the dynamics and logistics of todays armed forces so fleeting that they need transitory uniforms? Think about that for a moment. Won't you?

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 23:48 | 6116100 Dave Thomas
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I'll put it like this: Back in the olden days, Banks used to have their names chiseled in granite, leafed with the finest gold. Nowdays you open a bank and you get a vinyl banner from Fastsigns.

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 06:40 | 6116586 Ace Ventura
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The velcro-patches are primarily assigned to aircrews. In combat, if you were shot down over enemy territory and survived/bailed out.....you would quickly remove all unit identifiers and dispose of them.

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 00:29 | 6116213 Quus Ant
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Because it was filmed on a stage lot.  The uniforms have removable patches so they can be swapped out for another country's insignia.

The Chinese will see a similar version with their soldiers wearing PROC patches.

 

incidentally,

You may begin to notice production values dropping as the show runs into its final season.  Our budget has been slashed as most resources are flowing into the reboot.

Remember suspension of disbelief is not a choice.  You're in or you're out.

 

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 22:50 | 6115968 Jack Burton
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Oddly enough, CNN is asked along on the flight that intrudes enough to arouse the Chinese to tell them to move off. This is all stage manged. I watched CNN this afternoon, and they all but said that the Untied States would be forced to fight China in a war to teach them to accept US domination of all the seas. No, they said it more than once. War was now inevitable with China, because of these acts of defiance.

What ever the Zionists are playing at, they seem anxious for a fight, in Syria, in Ukraine, now in the south China sea.

The Pentagon and the Military industrialists and private contractors and spies now suck up an approximate 1.25 trillion dollars a year. A long standing rule is "follow the money", that is the rule for finding out who and what is behind US policies. In this case, " follow the money" and you will see why all this war fever.

I wonder, do the 95 million Americans who dropped out of the labor force, the 2 million in prison, the 30 million in abject poverty, and the middle class now sinking into poverty, are they really up for a war on Russia, a war on China, an Invasion of Iran, and an attack on Syria. All at once?

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 22:54 | 6115982 i_call_you_my_base
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There was a bit on NPR this morning about the US needing to take a more adversarial role with China. Some academics from a think tank. I thought at the time it had some significance.

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 22:54 | 6115984 cherry picker
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It is simple, they believe they need to cull the human race.  While this is happening they think they will be in a safe place somewhere.

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 23:29 | 6116065 Cistercian
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The Malthusian bent of the lunatics at the top is frightening indeed.They want most of the world population to die off...so they can live like kings and not be bothered by the unwashed hordes.The depth of their depravity in this regard is remarkable.

Very very dangerous...

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 22:56 | 6115988 reader2010
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History says China taught Washington a big lesson back in 1950 when they fucked the GIs big time. No? Not anymore. Because the Neocons know something that history doesn't know.

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 23:36 | 6116082 Cistercian
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Imagine if we had resorted to use of the Bomb as some had urged...

I have no doubt the escalation to theatre nukes will come quickly.

The strategic level soon after...

Life will suck pretty hard after that happens.

Starkly...this is the future that awaits if we don't do something about the insane ass-clowns that want it...and damn soon too!

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 00:12 | 6116175 reader2010
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That would fuck up big time. History says Mao decided to draw the GIs into China proper and then let the Soviets drop their nukes on the Chinese soil. Imagine that, chichen hawks!

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 22:58 | 6115995 NotApplicable
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I think they call that a "win-win."

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 23:02 | 6116009 suteibu
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No war with China.  The US needs to stir up some Asian fear-mongering in order to push along the TPP and also to scare the Japanese into changing their constitution.

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 23:40 | 6116092 Kirk2NCC1701
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If the Zi'Borgs want war, planet Zi'Borg will be the first casualty. Deservedly so.

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 00:13 | 6116179 Chuck Knoblauch
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It doesn't benefit China to overtly engage the US in a costly war.

The Chinese know the Neocons are still in charge.

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 01:44 | 6116311 Rock On Roger
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War makes Money and Zion is broke.

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 22:52 | 6115977 Caveman93
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Theysze built a Death Star!?

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 22:52 | 6115978 cherry picker
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It is South China Sea, not South USA Sea, is it?

Leave them alone, between China, Japan, Indionesia and more why get involved.  Let them fight their own battles or make their own peace.

They don't need big nose Uncle Sam stirring up the pot.

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 23:13 | 6116029 reader2010
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No, it's America's South China Sea.

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 22:54 | 6115981 Uber Vandal
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You here Four hour!

Why You Here Four Hour?

You Come Here No More!!

You Go Now!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLkTuWdKrqY

 

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 23:21 | 6116048 Shawnee
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maybe our boys can get some take out while they're there, a little beef and broccoli maybe some pork fried rice, anything to pass the time.........

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 23:59 | 6116127 Harbanger
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+1 I love John Pinette.  Here's some more for people that don't know him and could use a good laugh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOU1nDTPg38

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 22:57 | 6115994 DOGGONE
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PLEASE show the USA people!

"Stop whoring for Wall Street"
http://www.showrealhist.com/yTRIAL.html
http://patrick.net/?p=1223928

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 22:59 | 6115998 TrustbutVerify
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Why do we support China by buying their goods?  

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 23:04 | 6116013 The_Prisoner
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Cause you ain't got no choice! (\hillbilly accent)

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 23:07 | 6116020 WTFUD
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YOU NO GOODS TbV YOU SOCIAL MEDIA

FLUCK YOU!

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 23:10 | 6116025 Savyindallas
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So the jews here can buy a piece of junk from China for $1 that an American factory could have produced for $5 and then sell it to the American public at Walmart for $10. Double the profit  -makes perfect sense. 

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 23:13 | 6116030 suteibu
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Ironically, it all started with Christmas decorations.  Jesus haters paying atheists to produce trinkets so Christians can celebrate Santa Claus coming.

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 23:02 | 6116006 bid the soldier...
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are you serious?

unacceptable attempt to "use sheer size and muscle to force countries into subordinate positions.

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 23:15 | 6116034 Buster Cherry
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irony is not lost here....

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 23:41 | 6116095 Cistercian
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Oh yea...I fell over hysterical when I read that!

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 23:02 | 6116008 q99x2
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Don't bring those planes over here. We have enough trouble with the globalist banksters. You keep em.

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 23:04 | 6116014 kchrisc
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Like always, Zion is playing loose with the lives of many goy.

Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission.

 

For thousands and thousands of years people, when learning of this era, are going to look at a map and shake their heads in wonder on how such a group represented by such a piss ant nation that is Israel, was allowed to ride roughshod over half the world and just about destroy all of it.

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 23:05 | 6116015 q99x2
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Why didn't you tell me it was CNN I would have known it was propaganda and would not have watched such trash.

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 23:07 | 6116021 laomei
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Don't worry guys, China is totally just another Japan and about to implode and go back to being a total shithole any day now.  China will totally give in to the US and cave to whatever valuations the US wants.. just like Japan did.  And China totally won't invest in meaningful assets instead of pissing it all away on prestige purchases.  And China totally won't use its massive reserves to buy influence in a world where the US is held in disdain.

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 23:24 | 6116052 reader2010
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I heard they like to fuck white pussies. Is that ture? If so, we don't have any problems at all.

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 00:22 | 6116199 IridiumRebel
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5000 year old civilization meet 240 year old "democracy"

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 00:31 | 6116215 The Darwin Mode
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I wouldn't say all five thousand of those years were overly civilized.

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 05:35 | 6116529 Zapporius
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Well, neither were your 240.

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 23:10 | 6116026 WTFUD
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How many Russian Subs circling dem newbuilds?

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 23:17 | 6116037 Monetas
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Same old troll bullshit .... 100 Jews run the world .... really ?

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 00:08 | 6116157 Anusocracy
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Last time I checked there wasn't a world government.

So maybe you are the troll.

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 23:21 | 6116049 Atomizer
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According to a May 2015 report, China is building a 40,000 drone army. Too bad the story is from 2011.

By Daily Mail Reporter21:13 05 Jul 2011, updated 21:13 05 Jul 2011

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2011533/China-building-army-unma...

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 23:25 | 6116055 the grateful un...
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wait didnt china steal W bushs spy plane? oh yeah here we go again. jeb in 2016

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 23:28 | 6116060 Atomizer
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China building an army of unmanned military drones 'to rival the U.S.'
Wed, 05/20/2015 - 23:29 | 6116064 pachanguero
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Staged problem,reaction....solution.

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 23:31 | 6116069 DutchBoy2015
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Americunts think they own the world and then wonder why the world hates the USA.

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 23:50 | 6116111 Cistercian
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You silly man..we don't own the world.We just enforce for the people who do.
Blaming our people is idiotic...we are so heavily propagandized into loving "freedom" etc etc most of us are totally lost.

Trust me...we have a common enemy.And that enemy has no state allegiance whatsoever.They are motivated by the basest appetites and care not a whit who dies or suffers so they can continue on their demented journey.

Lots of posters here know how idiotic republican vs democrat arguments are.Yet how many realize how state vs state is also inane in today's happy global clusterfuck.

Too few.

The ultra villains use the states like the tools they are.

Things are worse than you think.....

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 05:33 | 6116528 Zapporius
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so it's not freedom & liberty, it's more about being the german shepard.

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 23:35 | 6116076 Atomizer
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Executive Order 13103, signed by President Clinton on September 30, 1998

The report - Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 23:39 | 6116083 DutchBoy2015
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Russia has nukes, Pakistan has nukes, China has nukes.  They need to get together and do a huge preemptive Shock and Awe on the Useless Snakes.

This is what America wants,  WAR,  so stopfucking around and get it on.

Hundreds of  ICBM's with Mirvd warheads raining down on every major city in the USA.

Do it during the World series or Super Bowl ..  or on a Saturday night when they are sucking on their bongs and watching Kardashians.

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 00:14 | 6116180 Shitgum Suicide
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Dutchie- my god you are such an audible cunt!

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 23:38 | 6116087 STP
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The TV commercial for the US Navy, tells me it's a 'Force for Good', does that imply, that all the other forces are bad?

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 23:44 | 6116102 suteibu
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One wonders what the reaction to those ads would be if shown ad infinitum in some foreign countries, like maybe in Okinawa.  They make my skin crawl.

Wed, 05/20/2015 - 23:59 | 6116126 STP
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I was there, as a young Marine, back in 1978.  I was part of the Camp Guard for Camp Schwab on the Northern end of the island and the locals were having virulent protests, back then!  I mean, who wouldn't mind the drunken airmen, sailors and jarheads, every weekend, in your town?

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 00:07 | 6116154 IridiumRebel
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The rapes didn't help either...

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 00:15 | 6116185 suteibu
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Okinawans have had a rough history, not of their own making BTW, since Perry planted the American flag there in the 1850s.  Perhaps its greatest peace was from mid 1600s to that time when it was a neutral zone between China and Japan, paying tribute to both but also protected by both.  Then the Westerners arrived and life has been hell since then.

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 05:38 | 6116533 css1971
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It explains why they never taught westerners the real meaning of karate kata (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaisai_no_genri), turning the martial art into a bouncy game of tag in the west. The secret didn't come out till ~2001.

There are now multiple generations of teachers, and millions of "karate" (and TKD) practitioners in western countries who mistakenly think the martial art is just kicking and punching.

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 00:10 | 6116166 WTFUD
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Geisha old and new is my only consideration STP.

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 00:00 | 6116135 GRDguy
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Do you really think the Chinese would be doing all this island-building without a wink and a nod from the financial sociopaths who actually pull China's chain? Sadly, it's all orchestrated behinds the scenes by TPTB. The Great Red Dragon at work.  Remember when Russia and the U.S. raced to build up Star Wars? Both sides were financed by the same financial sociopaths.  When the right time arrived, they pulled Russia's credit lines and collapsed the USSR. Gold hadn't drifted away from the U.S. yet.  Because the "drift of gold" is now to  the East, they're going to pull the same stunt on the U.S.  When??? That's the trillion dollar question.

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 00:11 | 6116159 nuke ISIS now
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"you go".......girl

 

WTF...A least after the "big one",,all you will need to do to cook dinner is place the food outside on the doorstep for a couple seconds and voila..food is microwaved to perfection, as ron popeil said...set it and 4get it muther fuker

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 01:26 | 6116282 Counterpunch
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Yes, I really think.  You presuppose one dark malevolent behind the scenes ghost.  There are overlapping circles of megalomania and the Chinese version is incompatible with the Anglo-Zionist one.

 

As for collapsing the USSR - no need to chase ghosts.  They also profited from the resulting firesale.

 

http://www.softpanorama.org/Skeptics/Pseudoscience/harvard_mafia.shtml

 

Read....swim around a little. You may learn something.

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 00:03 | 6116140 Omega_Man
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why is the US gov assholes? even without zionist control they would prob be this way

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 00:06 | 6116141 Elliott Eldrich
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It seems like China is turning into a major superpower, and starting to assert itself in the region. Maybe sending our entire manufacturing base to China wasn't such a great idea after all? I guess we'll have to spend lots and lots more money on our military now, to "contain" this new "threat" to our national interests; like that wasn't the plan all along...

Thanks to everyone who supported NAFTA and GATT for this turn of events. Thank you free traders, thank you Republicans, thank you Democrats, thank you Bill and Hillary Clinton. Thank you all ever so fucking much, you demonic, greedy, selfish, vicious traitors.

Why do free traders hate Americans?

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 00:11 | 6116169 Anusocracy
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Um, show me the free trade.

Unless it's only in your head then that's your problem.

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 00:18 | 6116187 Elliott Eldrich
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Seriously, that's the best you can do? Just do a blanket dismissal of any problem whatsoever, then say it must all be in my head? What a curious mixture of denial and bullying, not even an argument, it's just obnoxious twaddle.

 

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 01:18 | 6116269 Rock On Roger
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Manufacturing capacity won WWII.

 

I wonder if it will make a difference

In World War Three?

Thu, 05/21/2015 - 01:31 | 6116288 reader2010
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Don't swallow their lies. It was the USSR that defeated Nazi Germany using its own weaponry and oil. 

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