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Foreign Diplomacy, Beijing In 1974, China Business, Respek, And My Friend G
2008-06-25 01:53:00 Tom Plate wrote an interesting column the other day, entitled, "George I: American internationalist," regarding George Bush's (the elder) stint in China as Chief US representative to Beijing. The column actually focuses on the book "The China Diary of George H.W. Bush," recently published by Princeton University Press, which Plate describes as "balanced, prescient and helpful:" During the one year (October 1974 to December 1975) that George H. W. Bush served as the chief U.S. representative in Beijing, the future president thoughtfully scribbled down little jottings of his experiences and worries about the all-important U.S.-China relationship. The jottings have now been strung together into a coherent diary and with deft commentaries by Jeffrey A. Engel, an up-and-coming assistant professor at the Bush School of Government and Public Policy in Texas. The result is a quite readable, most likable and oft-illuminating set of yearlong musings about China and the U.S., about inter...
By: China Law Blog
John McCain, Canonhead Diplomacy
2008-06-09 18:42:00 After eight years of Bush-Cheney diplomacy, the result which has been pretty much everyone on planet earth hating us, along comes hop-a-long McSame pledging to continue these same failed policies. Here's a guy who's been to Iraq eight times, and still can't get it right. He thinks an Iraqi neighborhood is safe as long as he's wearing a bullet proof vest, has a hundred soldiers guarding him, and several military helicopters hovering overhead for good measure. He doesn't even know the difference between a Sunni or a Shia Arab, a gaffe he repeated more than once with regards to this 1400 year old tribal war.While no one belittles his unfortunate captivity in the Hanoi Hilton where he was subjected to five and a half years of torture, we do have to wonder how he can claim this experience somehow sharpened his foreign policy creds. The guy was locked up while being tortured for gawd's sake. This begs the question, considering the inhumane treatment he received, how he could have ca...
Israeli-Palestinian Relations Unravel Over Gaza Blockade
2008-06-08 19:19:00 Israeli Supreme Court rejects renewed appeal on fuel cuts in Gaza <http://www.maannews.net/en-/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&-ID=29763> [6 June] A three-judge panel of the Israeli Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a renewed appeal by a group of Israeli and Palestinian human rights groups to interfere in the military-administered fuel cuts to Gaza. The Israeli human rights organization Gisha issued a statement on Thursday afternoon about the ...
Reality Show Will Document Homeland Security
2008-05-29 07:36:00 From HollywoodReporter.com, by James Hibberd A new ABC unscripted series will take an unprecedented look behind the scenes at the government’s fight against terrorism. The network has ordered 11 hours of “Border Security USA” from executive producer Arnold Shapiro (”Big Brother”). Shot on location throughout the United States, the series will focus on the efforts of border ...
Carter: Israel Has 150 Atomic Bombs
2008-05-28 10:50:00 From Al Jazeera The state of Israel has at least 150 nuclear weapons, Jimmy Carter, the former US president, has said according to reports in the UK. The announcement marks the first time a US president has publicly acknowledged the Jewish state’s nuclear arsenal. Carter made the remark while responding to a question at the Hay-on-Wye ...
Carter Urges Europe To Break With US Over Gaza Blockade
2008-05-27 17:21:00 From Guardian.co.uk, by Jonathan Steele and Jonathan Freedland Former US President Jimmy Carter speaking at the 2008 Hay Festival. Photograph: Barry Batchelor/PA Britain and other European governments should break from the US over the international embargo on Gaza, former US president Jimmy Carter told the Guardian yesterday. Carter, visiting the Welsh border town of Hay for the ...
Another look at World War II; Diplomacy or appeasement? - International Her
2008-05-25 15:06:00 Another look at World War II; Diplomacy or appeasement?International Herald Tribune, France - 5 hours agoNonetheless, whatever injustice the Treaty of Versailles represented for Germany, there is no acceptable rationalization in the civilized world for Hitler. ...
FARC's terrorist diplomacy reaches Germany
2008-05-25 05:53:00 A recent article in the German online publication, Der Spiegel, provides further insights into FARC's efforts to get itself off international terrorist lists. According to Der Spiegel , documents provided to it by Colombian officials said to be from the seized compters of the late FARC #2 leader Raul Reyes, obtained in Colombia's March 1 cross-border raid of a FARC camp in Ecuador, describe FARC meetings in Berlin with a representative of the Party of Democratic Socialism (PDS) -- the successor party...(read more)
Diplomacy is tried to reduce tensions over Abkhazia
2008-05-22 14:58:00 The long military standoff in Abkhazia, where a separatist dispute has risked escalating this year to a renewed war, has entered a phase of quiet diplomacy aimed at easing tensions and urging negotiations, according to officials on both sides of the conflict. No agreement to negotiate has been reached, and the differences between the Abkhaz and ...
By: 1913 Intel
Venezuela: Hard-Drive Diplomacy
2008-05-19 04:42:00 Evidence of Venezuela’s support for terrorism could carry Hugo Chávez to the pariah status he deserves. THE CONFIRMATION by an international forensics team that laptops and hard drives captured by Colombia originated in a camp of FARC terrorists ought to open a new era in relations between the democratic world and Hugo Chávez’s Venezuelan government. Whether ...
By: 1913 Intel
Top Mexican Cops Being Assassinated
2008-05-17 06:14:00 Officer Down: Mexican Federal Police Chief Edgar Millan Gomez Mexico: Examining Cartel War Violence Through a Protective Intelligence Lens (STRATFOR) By Fred Burton and Scott Stewart Mexico?s long and violent drug cartel war has recently intensified. The past week witnessed the killings of no fewer than six senior police officials. One of those killed was Edgar Millan Gomez, ...
Analysis: Obama reacts fast to Bush on diplomacy
2008-05-17 05:52:00 In President Bush's hint that Barack Obama wants to appease terrorists, Democrats heard troubling echoes of 2004, when Republicans portrayed John Kerry as irresolute and weak on national security. Determined to end the similarities there, Obama and his allies counterattacked Friday with a multi-pronged response that was as fast and fierce as Kerry's response to the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth ads was slow and uncertain. And while the Democrats' first-day responses focused on Bush's speech this week in Israel, Friday's reactions mainly targeted John McCain, the GOP presidential candidate who seemed largely on the sidelines at first. Obama, appearing unusually feisty and at times sarcastic, led the countercharge himself. Campaigning in South Dakota, he departed from planned remarks to rebuke Bush and McCain, and then called a news conference for a second dose. "I was offended by what is a continuation of a strategy from this White House, now mimicked by Senator McCain, that...
Osama Cutting Message on Israel?s 60th
2008-05-16 08:04:00 From ABCnews.com An radical jihadist Web site has announced that a new message from al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is forthcoming. A banner announcing the message says he will address the 60th anniversary of Israel. His message is titled, “The reasons for the struggle in the remembrance of the 60th anniversary of the rising of the ...
President Bush Compares Obama's Iran Diplomacy To Nazis
2008-05-15 18:07:00 During a speech in Jerusalem, President Bush jumped head first into the 2008 presidential campaign by taking a shot at Democratic presidential nominee, Barack Obama, by comparing his willingness to hold diplomatic talks with Iran to the appeasement of Nazis in the 1930’s. President Bush’s foreign policy has been nothing short of a disaster and even MSNBC’s Pat Buchanan can’t help but call this what it is - an unprecedented smear of an American presidential candidate from outside the country. Buchanan and Harold Ford Jr. both agree that Bush has really stepped in it with these comments and the big question now, as it relates the presidential campaign, is how Senator John McCain reacts. McCain has already used the Hamas smear repeatedly against Senator Obama, but will he embrace these farcical statements of President Bush? Senator Obama immediately responds to the attacks: “It is sad that President Bush would use a speech to the Knesset on the 60th an...
By: PhreQuency Ent.
Credit Where It?s Due
2008-05-15 00:04:00 From The Australian, by Janet Albrechtsen THERE is a certain familiarity to the concomitant series of actions and reactions when disaster strikes in the world. The US stands ready, willing and able to offer assistance. It is often the first country to send in millions of dollars, navy strike groups loaded with food and medical supplies, ...
Bob Barr Enters Race For White House
2008-05-13 07:45:00 For Americans who may have been hungry for a credentialed conservative candidate in the 2008 Presidential contest, the wait is over. Bob Barr today announced his candidacy for the presidency. Barr will run as a Libertarian and have to secure the their party?s nomination at a convention in Denver in two weeks. In discussing the 2008 race ...
Paul Bremer to Al Jazeera, ?The system was not working?
2008-05-09 08:50:00 From Al Jazeera Paul Bremer was appointed by George Bush, the US president, as head of the Coalition Provisional Authority immediately after the invasion of the country by US-led forces, taking up his position on May 11, 2003, until June 2004 when limited sovereignty was restored. As part of Al Jazeera’s special series War Without End, ...
Aruban Officials Covered-Up Impact of Aruban Boycott
2008-05-08 21:29:00 From http:ArubanBoycott.Blogspot.com- New statements by Aruban Tourism officials proves Boycott Watch caught Aruba in a lie, and that Aruba wanted to cash in on the disappearance of Natalee Holloway Boycott Watch was first to break the story that Aruba lied about its tourism numbers, claiming tourism was up despite the boycott of Aruba called after the disappearance ...
Congressman Ron Paul Speaks Out on National Security
2008-05-08 08:14:00 Washington, DC - At a packed meeting of the American Conservative Defense Alliance on Wednesday, Congressman Ron Paul, MD (R-TX) addressed a wide range of national security issues. During the meeting he expressed serious concerns about what the Patriot Act has meant to the liberty of Americans stating, ?What?s left of the 4th Amendment? Not much ...
China Courts Dalai Lama. Olympic Good Spirit?
2008-05-04 02:07:00 The Chinese government has been making strenuous attempts to ensure a meeting with the Dalai Lama. The troubled events attending the Olympic torch relay, and international condemnation of China for her human rights record, have brought considerable pressure on the Chinese leaders to make this move. This is in marked contrast to its decades of execrating the ...
Pariah Diplomacy
2008-04-28 10:33:00 Sudhan @10:30 CET By JIMMY CARTER The New York Times | April 28, 2008 A COUNTERPRODUCTIVE Washington policy in recent years has been to boycott and punish political factions or governments that refuse to accept United States mandates. This policy makes difficult the possibility that such leaders might moderate their policies.Two notable examples are in Nepal and the ...
By: Suzie-Q
A Courageous Marina Litvinenko Takes Up Husband?s Cause
2008-04-25 09:09:00 From HSLEADER.com, by John Taylor Washington - Marina Litvinenko, the widow of Alexander ?Sasha? Litvinenko, gave a long overdue talk to the attendees of GovSec on Thursday on behalf of her late husband. Mr. Litvinenko was scheduled to address GovSec in 2007, when he was assassinated in November 2006 with tea poisoned with polonium-210. Mrs. Litvinenko gave ...
DHS Proposes Biometrics Collection on Exiting Non-US Citizens
2008-04-22 19:27:00 WASHINGTON ? The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced today a notice of proposed rulemaking that will establish biometric exit procedures at all U.S air and sea ports of departure. The majority of non-U.S. citizens are already required to submit digital fingerprints and a digital photograph for admission into the country. The US-VISIT Exit ...
Rice says Carter was warned against meeting with Hamas
2008-04-22 19:24:00 KUWAIT CITY (AP) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Tuesday the Bush administration explicitly warned former President Jimmy Carter against meeting with members of Hamas, the Palestinian faction that controls the Gaza Strip and which is regarded by the U.S. as a terror group. Rice, attending a regional meeting on Iraq’s security and future, contradicted ...
By: TexasFred's
Welcome To Leavenworth Marine!
2008-04-11 05:28:00 From CNN.com U.S. Marine Cpl. Cesar Laurean, the main suspect in the killing of a 20-year-old pregnant Marine, has been captured in Mexico, federal authorities announced Thursday. Authorities are awaiting extradition to bring Laurean, who has been on the run since January, back to North Carolina. He has been indicted on charges of murder, ATM card theft, ...
Random Search Stops $600 Million In Trade Secrets Bound For China
2008-04-08 06:08:00 From InformationWeek, by Thomas Claburn The feds have indicated a software engineer who was flying to China with confidential technical documents, a thumb drive, four external hard drives, 29 recordable compact discs, and a videotape. A former software engineer for a telecommunications company based near Chicago was indicted for allegedly stealing trade secrets worth an estimated ...
DHS Domestic Spy Platform Remains Concern for Congress
2008-04-08 05:56:00 Today, Committee on Homeland Security Chairman Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), Subcommittee on Intelligence, Information Sharing, and Terrorism Risk Assessment Chair Jane Harman (D-CA), and Subcommittee on Management, Investigations, and Oversight Chairman Chris P. Carney (D-PA) sent a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff detailing their concerns over the progress of the Department?s National Applications Office ...
Memo: Laws Didn?t Apply to Interrogators
2008-04-07 07:32:00 From The Washington Post, by Dan Eggen and Josh White The Justice Department sent a legal memorandum to the Pentagon in 2003 asserting that federal laws prohibiting assault, maiming and other crimes did not apply to military interrogators who questioned al-Qaeda captives because the president’s ultimate authority as commander in chief overrode such statutes. The 81-page memo, ...
Buzzworthy: ?Lobster-Eye? Helps Peek Inside Cargo
2008-04-07 07:09:00 From POC.com The Handheld ?Lobster-Eye? X-ray Inspection Device (LEXID) provides through - the - wall focusing and acquisition of backscattering photons from a hidden object irradiated by a cone beam from a low power X-ray generator. The X-ray optic focusing, combined with the X-ray detector significantly lowers the exposure dose, greatly enhancing image resolution. At the ...
China Alters Its Role in World Economy, Diplomacy - NPR
2008-03-31 22:04:00 China Alters Its Role in World Economy, DiplomacyNPR - 4 hours agoAFP/Getty Images Every day seems to bring a new statistic about China: It has become the world's third-largest trading nation, it has the world's most cell ...
Bush's tour of Eastern Europe to focus on diplomacy
2008-03-31 21:09:00 Bush left Washington early Monday for Ukraine, which has been pressing to be included in a round of NATO accessions following the candidates leading the queue - Albania, Croatia and Macedonia, whose applications will be decided at the summit meeting.
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al-Maliki and al-Sadr both rattle their sabres
2008-03-27 18:16:00 BAGHDAD - Shiite militiamen are everywhere. Police and Iraqi army checkpoints are nowhere in sight. U.S. soldiers are keeping their distance. Sadr City ? the Baghdad nerve center for the powerful Mahdi Army ? is suddenly back on edge as the militia leader, Muqtada al-Sadr, and Iraq?s government lock in a dangerous confrontation over clout and ...
By: TexasFred's
Al-Qaeda?s #2 Calls For Attacks Against US
2008-03-25 05:38:00 From www.nationalterroralert.com Al-Qaida deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahri is calling on Muslims to strike Israeli and American interests to avenge Israel?s recent offensive in the Gaza Strip, according to a new audiotape. In the 4-minute tape, posted on a Web site Monday, al-Zawahri accuses Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak of helping Israel in its offensive by sealing off the ...
Female Suicide Bombers in Iraq
2008-03-24 17:56:00 From CounterterrorismBlog.com, by Farhana Ali As the war in Iraq continues, more Iraqi women will be ready to make the ultimate sacrifice: to use their bodies as human shields. The U.S. Government and other experts are asking: Why now? Why has there been a spike in attacks in Iraq committed by women? More importantly, how will ...
Despite Iraq discord, world eager for US diplomacy - Christian Science Moni
2008-03-19 22:35:00 Chicago TribuneDespite Iraq discord, world eager for US diplomacyChristian Science Monitor, MA - 55 minutes agoBut America may need to understand how the world has changed during the war and what different kind of leadership is now required. ...The world is a better place for the Iraq Times OnlineFive years on, world leaders still praise Iraq war LIVENEWS.com.auBush: Iraq invasion has led to safer world TV3 NewsBaltimore Sun - MWC Newsall 594 news articles
Despite Iraq discord, world eager for US diplomacy - Christian Science Moni
2008-03-19 22:35:00 CitizenDespite Iraq discord, world eager for US diplomacyChristian Science Monitor, MA - 6 hours agoBut America may need to understand how the world has changed during the war and what different kind of leadership is now required. ...Five years on, world leaders still praise Iraq war LIVENEWS.com.auBush: Iraq invasion has led to safer world TV3 NewsNot My Father's War Seattle Post IntelligencerOpEdNews - MWC Newsall 645 news articles
Despite Iraq discord, world eager for US diplomacy - Christian Science Moni
2008-03-19 22:35:00 CitizenDespite Iraq discord, world eager for US diplomacyChristian Science Monitor, MA - 12 hours agoBut America may need to understand how the world has changed during the war and what different kind of leadership is now required. ...The world is a better place for the Iraq Times OnlineFive years on, world leaders still praise Iraq war LIVENEWS.com.auIraq: Bush Says War Still Worth Fighting -- And Winning RadioFreeEurope/RadioLibertyCTV-.ca - The Canadian Pressall 560 news articles
Kingdom Diplomacy
2008-03-19 13:00:00 I count myself indeed fortunate that my pastors teach the whole counsel of God. In preparation for the celebration of the holy week, my head pastor taught a sermon from 2 Corinthians 5:11-21. It was a beautiful exposition of how we are to be God’s diplomats seeking to teach sinners to be reconciled to God ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Kingdom Diplomacy", url: "http://www.twoinstitutions.org-/?p=272" });
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Tibet?Prayer and Catholic Diplomacy!
2008-03-18 21:58:00 The Holy See is watching events unfold in Tibet very quietly and this author is quite sure there will be a statement from the Vatican Diplomatic Service shortly. Tibetans need reassurance that the prayers and hopes of the Catholic people are with the Tibetan people as they struggle with China?s martial crackdown in their mountain ...
The FARC's Terrorist Diplomacy
2008-03-18 20:07:00 If the information in the laptops seized by the government of Colombia following its March 1 cross-border raid into Ecuador proves to be as authentic as it appears , Colombia's FARC guerillas have developed an extensive political network to supplement their criminal and terrorist activity, with important nodes including the political leadership of Ecuador and Venezuela. According to the material released to date in the Colombian press and currently being analyzed by a team sent to Colombia from INTERPOL...(read more)
The Cult of the Suicide Bomber
2008-03-16 19:56:00 Few players in the ‘war on terror’ are more chilling, or misunderstood, than suicide bombers. Yet the true scale of their grisly activities has never been properly calculated. Five years after the invasion of Iraq, Robert Fisk details the shocking extent of the most widespread campaign of self-liquidation in human history From The Independant, by Robert ...
Sec. Chertoff Announces Gonzalez?s Departure
2008-03-14 04:04:00 Today?s statement from Sec. Chertoff: Emilio Gonzalez has informed me of his intention to resign as Director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), effective April 18. Emilio has been an extraordinary director who is leaving an indelible mark on the transformation and modernization of USCIS operations. Emilio is an American by choice and he has brought ...
Britain’s public diplomacy: BBC Arabic
2008-03-07 10:35:00 The BBC is about to launch its new Foreign Office funded, 12-hour Arabic channel. This exchange between Asharq al-Awsat’s Faisal Abbas and the BBC’s Nigel Chapman sums up my feelings exactly. Reporting the status quo is not reporting.Q: You stated that you always strive to be impartial, but don’t you think that what many people are expecting is not impartiality at all but rather the exposure of corruption and conflicts in Arab states and to discuss issues that other channels avoid? Do you agree that in the absence of democracy in many of the states that what is required is a “campaigning broadcaster” not impartial media as such?A: That is a very interesting question. The BBC is not a campaigning broadcaster; it does not have a view about issues in the Middle East or anywhere else. BBC’s job is to report them fairly and accurately and to reflect the relevant points of view in relation to them.
The Useless U.N. ? Try the Obama Approach: Diplomacy
2008-03-07 06:10:00 When you read how demented these islamic facists are toward wiping out the Jewish state of Israel one can’t help but wonder how the new political star and CHANGE agent, Barack Obama would handle the situation if Hamas was lobbing rockets from a Canadian island in the St. Lawrence into Vermont. We’ll we already ...
The Titanic has struck an iceberg?
2008-03-06 22:50:00 … Captain Smith ran screaming from the bridge and jumped overboard. You are the First Officer. What are you going to do to get the ship to New York? On CNN, Jack Cafferty is asking, Who can best restore Americas’ position in the world? Who indeed? John McCain has essentially pledged to stay the course in just ...
Israeli Leader Threatens Palestinians With ?Holocaust?
2008-03-03 07:58:00 From YNetNews.com, by Reuters Deputy Israeli Defense Minister Matan Vilnai said on Friday the Palestinians would bring on themselves what he called a “bigger holocaust” by stepping up rocket attacks on Israel from the Gaza Strip. “Holocaust” is a term rarely used in Israel outside discussions of the Nazi genocide during World War Two. Many Israelis are ...
Iran?s Ahmadinejad Visits Iraq
2008-03-03 07:09:00 From ISNA - Tehran TEHRAN - The president was received warmly by his Iraqi counterpart Jalal Talebani upon his arrival in Iraq. Being welcomed at Baghdad’s airport by Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari and National Security Adviser Mouaffaq al-Rubaie, Ahmadinejad stepped into the presidential house in central Baghdad. Ahmadinejad planning to make a two-day visit of Iraq stepped ...
Afghan Opium Growth ?Hits New High?
2008-03-03 07:00:00 The US has warned that opium production in Afghanistan reaching record levels, undermining efforts to legitimise the economy and supplying the Taliban with funds for weapons. The US state department release its report on the issue as Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, Nato’s secretary-general, met George Bush in Washington to discuss Afghanistan. “Narcotics production in Afghanistan hit historic ...
Support Real Diplomacy with Iran, Instead of Military Threats
2008-02-28 05:42:00 Now that the U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded that Iran does not have a nuclear weapons program, there is a real chance to avoid another costly war if the U.S. government engages in serious diplomacy with Iran. And there is a bill in Congress that would encourage direct and comprehensive talks with Iran without preconditions. I just asked my Senators and Representative to support this effort to avoid another military confrontation. This web tool makes it... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
The Cult of Qelqoth vs The World
2008-02-22 01:05:00 Geneva, Switzerland — World leaders and conglomerates were summoned to an emergency meeting today, essentially to discuss the increasing threat of The Cult of Qelqoth and its respective plan for global domination. Since 2003, The Cult of Qelqoth has continued to harbour vehement opinions and dramatic irony, poising the world on the very brink ... |
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