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Chinese espionage threats

THE security service MI5 has accused China of bugging and burgling UK business
executives and setting up “honeytraps” in a bid to blackmail them into
betraying sensitive commercial secrets.
A leaked MI5 document says that undercover intelligence officers from the
People’s Liberation Army and the Ministry of Public Security have also
approached UK businessmen at trade fairs and exhibitions with the offer of
“gifts” and “lavish hospitality”.

The gifts — cameras and memory sticks — have been found to contain electronic
Trojan bugs which provide the Chinese with remote access to users’ computers.

Presidential Inexperience Goes Worldwide

Fred Barnes, "What Obama Accomplished in Asia" - from the article: Obama struck out on his entire agenda in China and he acquiesced as the Chinese subjected him to the humiliation of a choreographed town hall meeting with student members of the Young Communist League. And he suffered through a 30-minute news conference with Chinese President Hu Jintao in which no questions from the media were allowed. Presidents normally come away on visits to foreign countries with "deliverables"--that is, tangible signs of progress like a treaty signing. All Obama got was a list of things the United States and China would do in the future. There's a name for this: diplomatic boilerplate.

As disgraceful as the President's inexperience is, there may be no way to get the American people - on both the Right and the Left - to admit that politics is a skill which requires practice and involves making hard decisions better than most people can. Our culture of individualism means that we think ourselves automatically self-governing and independent, and to a degree, we are. But many of us on the Right complaining about Obama's inexperience would vote someone in who had absolutely no clue how to govern if they said the right things, and sometimes not even that. I like Sarah Palin as a person, but she's got a long way to go in terms of being articulate and less shrill, her record in Alaska is solid but very limited, and the fact that she pretty much is the face of the opposition is a serious problem for those of us who know that the future can made or broken by politics. I know for myself, I've only got one aspect of the solution: don't let things get dumbed down, don't let news analysis degenerate into conspiracy theory. But I don't know how to express the more positive aspect of what political discourse has to become, except that to say if I wanted to run for President, I'd be spending a ton of time studying problems and talking to experts, asking how people get things done given the bureaucracy, trying to meet the right people who would help and instruct, trying to understand how Congress and the judiciary work and what concessions need to be made to them on any given issue. In short: I wouldn't run for Senator and then immediately run for President. Nor would I surround myself with a fan base that only told me what I wanted to hear, not what I needed.

Off-topic, at my blog - Rant: The Banality of Conservatism

Iran has helped Syria obtain “various forms of weapons of mass destruction

clipped from www2.debka.com

The US Congressional Research Service reveals that Iran has helped Syria obtain "various forms of weapons of mass destruction" and missiles, as well as buying midget submarines - all from North Korea.

DEBKAfile's military sources report that the North Korean miniature subs are capable of dropping small teams of commando forces on enemy shores, damaging large warships and mining the approaches of naval bases and harbors. They are capable of sowing EM-52 "rising mines" originally developed by China, which lurk on deep sea beds until triggered by a passing ship to release a missile which shoots up to strike its hull.

The US CRS notes" Iran purportedly has acted as an intermediary with North Korea to supply Syria with missiles and various forms of WNMD, without specifying whether they are nuclear, chemical or biological.

Playing games with Iran

Lets cut through all the crap.

First do you think that Iran will stop all research and development of weaponized Nuclear material?

Do you think they will stop after sanctions?

Do you think they will give in if China and Russia were actually looking out for the interest of world peace?

I think the only way they will stop is by force.

The powers that be are riding high after ousting a weak U.S presence in 1979.

They bolster weapons they have purchased from both Russia and China. They have lucrative energy deals with Germany and who knows what else under the scope.

There is no real pressure for Iran to stop anything they are doing.

The two factors they consider is what will Israel do?

And at one time they were concerned that Iran was next in regime change under President Bush.

Today very little threatens them.

Israel has to defend themselves and can not count on the backing of the United States. With the Liberal Democrats controlling the Government and their focus on domestic issues foreign policy is least of their worries. Iran has time to play the game waiting for the opportunity to do what they must to bring the Mahdi.

The latest round of games....

I think that Iran will make the first move. The world is weary of war and this makes it a time of opportunity.