Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Stuff below the fold

No drone strikes in the Philippines says PNoy

they have been using drones to track the Abus, but there was a report on AlJezeerah awhile back saying that the "air strike" that took out one of the terrorists leaders was a drone strike. But I wondered where they got that report, since the left here was silent about it, and there was nothing in our news .... and now it is officially denied.

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that same article points out that the US is helping to back the Philippines against Chinese aggression to grab land. The article doesn't mention that the area in question also involves VietNam, who is putting Buddhist monks on a disputed island where their military and some civilians were killed "defending the islands against Chinese aggression: 25 years ago.

they also got the "Vietnamese diaspora" to protest Video links HERE.

China is also becoming aggressive here because of the perceived weakness of the US...but they are also starting a similar pattern of land claims against Japan, and India in pushing into border lands and claiming them as Chinese.

Yeah. Nothing like stopping internal unrest in Chinaby promoting a little war patriotism with nearby pacifistic countries.

Chinese scholars have estimated that there are up to 90,000 "mass incidents" each year in this vast country, many of them triggered by land confiscations and allegations of corruption.
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HAPPY FIRST DAY OF SPRING.

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