uninvited guest: Chinese sub pops up in middle of U.S. Navy exercise, leaving military chiefs red-faced

Ever watch a movie or read a book and think, I could've done better. Well, me too. Aren't we all better than those that doing the job anyway? I'm going to put my two cents where my mouth is, and also to add something to this blog that is not current event ranting.
I love the movie Predator with Arnold Schwarzenegger, but I hated both of the follow up movies....the story lines sucked. So I started a bit of writing last night and today and am putting in just what I started, if you dear reader want more of the story, please let me know at bpsitrep@yahoo.com If you're a Sci Fi fan, I tried to tie in other stories as well and use already created words, names. Now this is how the story should have continued:


Florida - August 1993
Warm breezes flowed from the south, bringing the saltiness of the Gulf of Mexico into western Florida, covering everything with a light dust by mid morning as the air warmed. Lately it was hot. A record hot summer again as temperatures soared daily into the 90’s. Sarasota was going to bake again in the summer sun tomorrow. He could read the weather like reading a book. Living here along the Gulf Coast since his retirement from the U.S. Army, he yearned only to raise his two children, and be with the one woman that understood.
Anna watched him as he stood staring out into the Gulf. She knew his thoughts again drifted back to the jungle, especially on nights like these when the temperature grew hot, and her own thoughts were the same.
It was time to get the kids to bed, Dutch stubbed out his cigar into the ash tray that rested on the railing of the long porch. The sound of rapidly approaching feet, quiet but not quiet enough for Dutch not to notice them. Angrily he chastised himself as the hair on the back of his neck stood up as he whirled and swung his arms and swooped up his five year old daughter.
“You make more noise than Boxie does when he’s running for his food bowl.”
His daughter laughed, “I scared you Daddy”
Dutch smiled, and as a father who wants only to make his children happy, he obliged her taunt, “Yes you did, I thought you were the boogy man”.
“Dutch”…said Anna.
Anna’s upbringing in Central America with her superstitions often did not understand the joking side. But Dutch knew as well she meant only not to bring up the nightmare of six years ago or bring a chance of that nightmare returning.
As he tucked both his children in, and kissed them goodnight, the thought that it had been six years struck him even harder tonight. That itself was strange since Dutch had just last month been over to USSOCOM at MacDill Air Force Base and gave Gen. Downing a personal report as to the events of June 1987. As well as receive an Intel update of the same. NASA had reported no activity coming from the Drago Constellation which is where they believed the trajectory came from that was recorded in ‘87 by an EOS weather satellite that caught what was thought to be a comet and breakage.
Further investigation and computer programming over the following three years took the track back into the Drago Constellation. But nothing since was ever noted and in 1990, a secret mission satellite was launched to specifically watch into that section of space.
Dutch retired as a full Colonel after 20 years of service, mostly doing training at various U.S. bases and one short deployment during Desert Storm. That mission itself had it’s own ghost. While taking a platoon of Green Beret across the western expanse of the Iraqi desert, Dutch was sure he was being watched. One night he was watching for Iraqi Republican Guard tank movements into the al Basra basin, Dutch was using some new NVG’s. As he swept the adjacent dunes, he swore he saw a figure move so fast, one like saw before. But that was the only incident. Ghost he thought then, and now.


Drago Star Constellation
Planet - Degnus - Yautja homeworld
The council watched the display on the imager before them. The ‘ooman’ looked particularly strong in his manners and physique, unusual for ‘oomans’/humans they all thought. But the recorded images of the hunt and subsequent encounter showed that most of this small band of humans were all unique, save for two males and one female.
“This one here, it is the human that killed my younger brother, and it is he that I demand not only clan justice, but family blood right law.”
The Council discussed it briefly. An old Senator with slash wounds across his face spoke: “Your rights are granted, but know this, the governing body will not send nor allow any other rescue or follow hunts on your clans behalf should you fail.” “Your clan will use its own expenses and craft for your purpose.” “It is known that the human’s technology has grown far beyond the expected means in a very short time and now we fear they are learning where live. This could lead to an end to a very good hunting ground for our youth which will cost your clan it’s seat in this Chamber.”
The older brother Predator, Lauk, he laughed, “I will kill more humans on this hunt than any have ever been taken before and take the greatest trophy”.
The old Senator slammed his fist down, “We have been hunting there for over three thousand years, and the humans have provided our youth with invaluable war skills we desperately need, especially in these times. Do not take your quest for revenge lightly that it will jeopardize our own existence.”
Lauk bowed and turned and walked out of the Chambers. He was met by senior clan members, “We have purchased a new single flight vehicle that has the new camouflage technology such as our suits.” one of them stated.
“Good”, was all Lauk said. His mind was already how he would kill this human. The clan walked out of the main structure towards their kraal.
A Senator on the Council stood, “That concludes all personal business, now all shall leave except for the Council of Elders and Council of War.”
After the room had cleared, the same Senator spoke:“The war on the edge of our furthest outpost is going badly, the enemy are brave, fierce, and tactfully smart. Also the Chestbursters are again becoming a nuisance, the red queens were becoming more intelligent, while the black queens and offspring still reacted with natural instinct.We have made plans with our Tuskin allies to eliminate all of the Chestbursters, since the outbreak in the seventh solar system, they spread across and infected the sixth and fifth solar systems. No other species survived, even the Allurance with their superior medical technology, are now extinct. With agreements from the Confederation, those three solar systems are now quarantined with extermination to begin as we speak.”
The Senator nodded towards the head of the Council of War. An aged and battle scarred warrior stood, “Auk-Ni”, as he was called, “Death by night” loosely translated.
“I have grave information concerning the war. The enemy have adapted to our tactics again, and even won a battle in a minor solar system..” and the old General gave the rest of the brief.
Afterwards the Councils departed, and the two senior Senators walked by themselves onto a rocky terrace adjacent to the Council building. It overlooked the entire Capital city which was enormous itself and stretched as far as they could see.
The Senior let his friend speak first..” My friend, our kind have seen so much over the course of time and history, and it seems that history is now upon us.”
The old Senator clicked his long tusk,”Yes, we are one of the oldest surviving races and our arrogance is what is bringing us to our end. Look at the humans, we’ve hunted their for a thousand years after stumbling by accident upon that far reaching and insignificant galaxy. They have grown technologically over the past three hundred years at a rate out pacing any other species. Even with their primitive space flight, unless they kill themselves in one of their trivial wars with each other, they will soon begin reaching far beyond their solar system.”
The two walked a bit further and watched the two blazing suns setting. The old Senator shook his head, “Those damn bugs and this damn war will both consume the last of our resources if we are not victorious. Our allies are growing stronger as well and soon be able to stand against us.” He grabbed a rock and crumbled it into dust in his hand, “The enemy sacrificed three of their ships just as a ruse, just to get their hands onto one of our ships…..and the self destruct failed to destroy the entire ship. What is worse is that the type of ship we lost.”
His fellow Senator stopped walking..”What do you mean? I heard the entire briefing?”
“After the briefing, Auk-Ni pulled me aside, and he told me it was one of the new individual fighters, it has total camouflage capabilities. I hope that the enemy will not find enough of it left to reverse engineer our technology.”
They both stood in silence for a moment.
The Senator friend stated…”Damn enemy, they have proven to be a real challenged to our fighters and maybe our territories.”
The old Senator growled….”YES……the damn enemy….what do they call themselves…oh yes….the damn Romulans.”

Since I started documenting the attacks, I think I'm up to about at least 10 now within the past two years, here's another one for you skeptics of my thoughts n' ideas to ponder upon:


Pit Bull Terriers Kill Owner in Florida
Wednesday, October 03, 2007
MIDDLEBURG, Fla. — Two pit bull terriers fatally attacked their owner who had raised them since birth, authorities said Tuesday.
Tina Marie Canterbury, 42, was walking to her back yard when the 2-year-old redbone pit bull terriers attacked her, according to the Clay County Sheriff's Office.
One of Canterbury's sons tried to help her, but the dogs attacked him. He was not seriously injured, authorities said.
A family friend shot at the dogs to scare them away. A deputy shot one of the dogs. The other dog ran away but was found two hours later and killed, authorities said.
Clay County Sheriff Rick Beseler said he couldn't remember such a severe dog attack since becoming sheriff three years ago.
There were no signs of dog fighting or other abuse at the Canterbury home, authorities said.

This is not in any way enjoyable or self serving to say something along the lines I told you so, but until the American people and Congress wake up.....I will soon be posting another story about Pit Bulls attacking.

While the rich downplay Dubai's request at purchasing a good share of NASDAQ, there appears a story now which shows again, how empires are always built at the expense of others.


Suffering beneath the skyscrapers
ALONG the coast south of old Dubai's souks and dhow harbours, where until a few years ago there was only scrubby wasteland, a futuristic vision is rising from the desert.
Glittering skyscrapers stretch for miles. Garish theme parks are opening. Sports stadiums are half-built. Manicured green verges are kept constantly watered in the searing Gulf heat by teams of men who are always Asian and always wearing overalls.
In just four decades since the oil money began to flow, the sheikhs in charge of this tiny emirate have turned it from a dusty Gulf backwater with a disreputable history of piracy and gold smuggling into one of the fastest-growing, hippest cities on the planet, awash with trendy bars, expensive hotels and branches of Starbucks.
In a region better known for conflict and stagnation, their achievement is an example of what can be done with ambition, oil money and cheap labour. They have made Dubai a stunning advert for globalisation, and next they want it to be the business capital of the Middle East.
Foreigners pour in at a rate of 800 a day. Europeans, Iranians, and Arabs from Egypt and Lebanon come to make their fortunes. Then there is the army of blue-collar workers from South Asia whose muscle has built the miracle - half a million of them toiling in the world's fastest-paced construction boom, with a modest dream of saving enough for a plot of land or a little shop when they go back India, Pakistan or Bangladesh.
Thousands of them work far above ground level on the Burj Dubai, the looming skyscraper which overtook its nearest rival recently when it reached 1680ft to become the world's tallest building. It still has 900ft to go before it is finished, when it will include four swimming pools.
Nearby is the world's biggest shopping mall, with a huge indoor ski slope where Arab families romp on artificial snow, and the graceful 1055ft-tall hotel on Jumeirah Beach, shaped like the sail of a dhow.
A gigantic artificial island development laid out like the fronds of a palm tree jutting into the waters of the Gulf is nearing completion, its luxury villas already snapped up by thousands of Britons who want a home among the 30 five-star hotels, shopping complexes and marinas.
More than 100,000 now enjoy the emirate's tax-free lifestyle of Arabian sunshine, soaring property prices, and air-conditioned luxury. Pushy estate agents with upper-crust accents boast about the year-long sunshine, the lack of language problems, and the "lifestyle", which for most means shopping in the endless malls or drinking in fake Irish pubs.
On the other side of the emirate from The Palm, to the north past a forest of cranes and miles of scruffy building sites, is a very different version of the Dubai dream, inhabited by the less fortunate group of foreigners.
The sprawling, heat-blistered labour camp of Sonapur is a squalid home very different to the air-conditioned luxury enjoyed by the British expatriates. Workers sleep eight to a room in ugly dormitory blocks festooned with washing hung out to dry, shuttled by fleets of battered buses past the Starbucks and bars to building sites ringed with barbed wire where they toil for 12 hours or more, six days a week.
Few ever see the inside of an air-conditioned shopping mall on their weekly day off. The security guards wouldn't let them in. Instead they loiter in front of Sonapur's down-at-heel supermarket. They have no spare cash. During their years in Dubai few manage to save much more than 500 dirhams a month (£70), and they must usually spend four years working before they can return home.
Afzal, from Bombay, said he had been promised 850 dirhams a month working as a crane driver by an agent before he arrived, but he has instead been paid only 450.
He said: "I went to a labour court but they didn't listen to me. Conditions are very bad here, there are 12 people sleeping in my room. Indian workers are treated like rubbish. I'm going home to India, the economy is good there now and I don't have to put up with this."
As he spoke, a growing crowd of labourers growled approval and clamoured to denounce Dubai. Instead of the opportunity they had hoped for on the emirate's building sites, they had encountered only disappointment.
The angry mood is new and, for Dubai's construction bosses, deeply worrying. For years, workers simply put up with being cheated by agents and employers. They had no choice, as their passports are confiscated on arrival, to control them so they can't leave or switch jobs. Many go months without being paid, and stories of workers being cheated out of their earnings are common.
What is new is the mood of angry militancy which is taking root among a labour force whose quiescence bosses have long taken for granted. From being unheard of a few years ago, the past couple of years have seen dozens of strikes.
Last year almost 3000 workers rioted, forcing the government to step in and order a company to pay months of unpaid wages. Fifty ringleaders were tracked down by police afterwards and sent back to India, but the bosses were shaken.
A few weeks later there was a strike at a Belgian-owned company. Trade unions are illegal, and so is industrial action, but industry observers say that big projects now routinely suffer walkouts - unheard of just two years ago.
Part of the change may be explained by India's own construction boom creating new blue-collar opportunities at home for the formerly inexhaustible labour pool. But many of the workers seem to have simply had enough. High-profile industrial accidents have also highlighted the shocking conditions they must endure.
Earlier this year men were shown on live TV falling to their deaths when fire swept through the high-rise tower they were working on. Things have got so bad that there has even been some grumbling from the Indian and Pakistani consulates, not known for their willingness to upset the Gulf's wealthy rulers.
And the scandal is affecting Dubai's international image at a time when United Arab Emirates (UAE) companies are buying up foreign firms, to the alarm of foreign workers. One prominent columnist on a newspaper in Pakistan, where many of the workers come from, compared construction of Dubai's towers to the building of the Pyramids by Egyptian slavemasters.
Worried construction bosses have already started to make concessions. Work has been forbidden during the hottest hours of the day, when temperatures reach 50 degrees centigrade (122 degrees fahrenheit), because exhausted, dehydrated workers were getting dizzy and slipping from tall buildings, although the government's own inspectors admit that hundreds of companies are ignoring the compulsory 150-minute break.
If workers are injured (and nobody really knows what industrial accident rates are), they are often dumped at hospitals by agencies with no cash to pay the bill. One expatriate Indian businessman, C P Mathew, was so moved by the plight of his countrymen that he started helping injured workers on his own initiative.
The most glaring problem is the behaviour of recruiting agents who persuade workers to try their luck in Dubai. Many are little better than con men. Mathew said: "Every day there is a case where recruiting agents cheat the workers. Most of them are illiterate villagers and they are vulnerable."
Many of the workers are so desperate, and so far from the support network of their families at home, that they kill themselves. Mathew knows of more than 100 who killed themselves last year.
Big companies such as Nakheel, developers of The Palm, insist that they do not exploit their workforce. Industry figures blame the smaller companies.
The UAE's poor international reputation on labour has reached such a low that Human Rights Watch (HRW) wrote to both the Louvre and the Guggenheim museums this month, asking them to promise that labour would not be exploited when branches of the museums are built in the Gulf state.
HRW warned the museums that they could sully their reputations by getting involved in the region.
Defenders of Dubai's appalling record use the dubious argument that the treatment of poor foreign labour is far worse in Saudi Arabia, but Dubai's rulers are finally trying to take some action. This year they have started to think about what is, in the Gulf, the unthinkable: changing labour laws and handing rights to workers.
Better laws have been drafted which would legalise trade unions. They were supposed to be implemented this year but the consultation period has dragged on as doubts have grown about whether they will ever be implemented.
Workers will still be banned from bargaining collectively, and deportation of strikers will remain legal, although if trades unions are legalised the International Labour Organisation will finally be able to work in the UAE. At present it operates in Burma, a closed nation with a brutal military regime, but not in the free-market UAE.
Critics point out that unscrupulous agents already have a reputation for ignoring existing laws forbidding them from withholding wages. They fear that new laws which could be introduced would be cosmetic only.
But if adult labourers get a raw deal in Dubai, children and women suffer perhaps even more. Last week, as Dubai proudly learned that it had broken the record for the tallest building, lawyers acting for its ruler Sheikh Mohammad bin Rashid al-Maktoum were arguing in a US courtroom that a lawsuit claiming the emir had enslaved children should be dismissed.
The case was brought by the parents of camel jockeys, young boys from Pakistan and Bangladesh who were allegedly kidnapped and forced to work as jockeys in dangerous camel races. The ruler had appealed to President George Bush to have the complaint dismissed because it would affect ties between the US and the UAE. Camel jockeys at the desert Bedouin races were banned last year and replaced by robot jockeys, which shows that Dubai can solve its labour problems creatively if it has the will to do so.
Then there's the sexual abuse of women immigrants. Huge numbers of Asians, especially Indians, Filipinas and Indonesians, work as maids in wealthy households where many suffer appalling abuse at the hands of their employers, including beatings, starvation and sleep deprivation. Trapped a long way from home with little money, many women are also easy prey for predatory bosses who want to force them into having sex.
Others are brought to the UAE on the pretence of doing jobs in hotels or restaurants but are instead trafficked into prostitution. Last year the US State Department was critical of Dubai's record on human trafficking, but as with so much of Dubai's labour problem there is really very little information available.
Like so much else about its treatment of workers, Dubai prefers to brush the problem under the carpet. The sheikhs hope visitors will admire the shiny skyscrapers and ignore the plight of the men working on them.

This is a prime example of why the United States can not allow a country such as Dubai to 'buy' so much of something that is directly related to our own National Security, just as with the Ports, so with the Stock Exchange companies.
Pro-Dubai speakers will say that Dubai is a ally on 'the war on terrorism', and that they pose no threat to the United States. Sure, today, but what of tomorrow? What if an anti-West, anti-Israeli, anti-American government assumes power over Dubai? That is not far fetched and could easily happen overnight, with the Mullahs there chanting in their mosque's 'death to America', 'death to Israel'..blah blah blah.
As the current government shows by it's treatment of the many foreign nationals that are the blue collar working force, it is easily not above them to change their face towards the West in a blink of the eye. Money, power, greed, fear, have ruled the Middle East since city-states began emerging thousands of years ago. Nothing has changed since in the manner of which rule is carried out today in the Middle East.
As the article so accurately details, Dubai is a growing, modern country...but as with all great city-state-nations, a people were subjugated to work beneath those in control without regard to their human plight. Until the government of Dubai changes it's way of treating the workers, no real business transactions can take place.

This 'Third' nail comes rather quickly but with the news I'm reading today, it's very poignant to what is happening and why the United States of America is dying as a great Nation. To put things bluntly, it's because of the reason that most great city-states, city-nations, empires, have fallen....it's from decay from within. Treachery from within. Enabling from within. This is the worse form of attack upon any Nation, it's the attack from within by it's own people. So let's start giving you, dear reader, the examples, the pure true facts, that you can see for yourself as I have found and seen them.
In today's Washington Times: Melee spurs calls for action on day laborers......Community leaders scheduled a public-safety meeting in a Northeast neighborhood after a bloody clash among a group of Hispanic men that residents said began in an area where day laborers gather looking for work.
As many as 200 mostly Hispanic day laborers congregate each day at a shopping plaza in Brentwood looking to link up with area contractors for jobs.
Residents said some of the workers loiter, drink alcohol and urinate in public — and that a proposal by D.C. Council member Harry Thomas Jr. to build a day-laborer center at the plaza to curb such problems is not the right solution.
"If we have them hanging out now, bringing a criminal element to our community, what are we going to do — allow them to have a meeting place?" said Raymond Chandler, an advisory neighborhood commissioner in the area. "We need to first enforce laws in place."
The incident occurred at about 7:30 p.m. last Thursday, when police found a Hispanic man lying on a sidewalk and bleeding from his head near 10th Street and Rhode Island Avenue in Northeast — only a few hundred feet away from the shopping plaza.
Police said the victim — who was identified only as "John Doe" in police reports — also had a stab wound in the center of his back.
Mr. Chandler said his constituents who live in the area told him the man was assaulted during a fight involving a large group of men that began behind the Bank of America at 915 Rhode Island Ave.
The clash then spilled over from a hill behind the bank onto 10th Street, where Mr. Chandler said men were "rolling over people's cars" during the fight.
From Indianapolis IndyStar :Three times a day during their shifts at the Indianapolis International Airport, more than 100 Muslim cab drivers wash their feet.
WHAT IS ABLUTION?
Muslims perform the cleansing ritual ablution, or "wudu" in Arabic, to prepare for prayer. They may perform it up to five times a day -- as needed, based on cleanliness -- for their five daily prayers.To start, they wash their hands and rinse their mouth and the openings of their nostrils. They wash their face and their arms up to their elbows. They wipe their forehead with their right hand over their hair to the back of their neck and clean both ears with their forefingers.To finish, they wash their feet, starting with the right. Each body part is washed three times.It is required that the water be moving, meaning they cannot dip their hands or feet in still water to complete the ritual.Source: Michael Saahir, imam, the Nur-Allah Islamic Center of Indianapolis
In the parking lot where they wait to be dispatched, some fill plastic bottles with water and pour it over the right foot, then the left. Others clean their feet in the restroom sink.
The practice is the last step in a ritual called ablution -- "wudu" in Arabic -- which involves washing several parts of the body to cleanse before Muslims' five daily prayers.
And by November 2008, when the new $1.07 billion airport terminal is scheduled to be complete, the restroom near the parking lot where taxi drivers stay between runs will include floor-level sinks that will make their daily ritual easier.
Such foot baths have started to crop up across the country, in schools such as the University of Michigan-Dearborn, where more than 10 percent of students are Muslims, and at airports such as Kansas City International Airport.
They have drawn the ire of bloggers and pundits, who say they violate the separation of church and state, and the praise of advocacy groups like the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

Mexican official urges North American UnionTells Denver trade conference EU is 'model we need to follow quickly'. At a Denver conference on intercontinental trade corridors, a Mexican mayor called for a swift move toward a European Union-style merger of the U.S., Canada and Mexico.
Referring to Europe, Evaristo Lenin Perez of Ciudad Acuna – a sister city of Del Rio, Texas – told the Great Plains International Conference, "It's a model we need to follow quickly."
Perez later told WND, "If only people know the benefits of opening the borders and working together, improving the quality of life for all, then no one would be opposed to the idea of a North American Union."

Abu Dhabi takes ownership stake in Carlyle GroupUnited Arab Emirate investment ties with Bush family deepen. The Financial Times announced last night the government of Abu Dhabi has made an investment in the Carlyle Group, a Washington-based private investment firm with close ties to former President George H. W. Bush and his family, as well as to top government officials in the Reagan and Clinton administrations.
Mubadala, a wholly owned investment arm of the Abu Dhabi government, bought a 7.5 percent share of the Carlyle Group in a transaction in which the deal price was struck at a 10 percent discount to a valuation of $20 billion for all of the Carlyle Group.
Abu Dhabi is the largest of the seven emirates of the United Arab Emirates and the capital.
Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan of the Abu Dhabi ruling family is the chairman of Mubadala. WND reported Dubai International Capital, a private equity investment capital firm that is a wholly owned subsidiary of Dubai Holdings, has commonly participated in co-investments with the Carlyle Group.
Dubai, like Abu Dhabi, is one of the seven emirates that form the UAE.
WND reported yesterday Dubai, in a complex set of transactions, is moving to acquire 19.9 percent of the Nasdaq stock market in New York, in the first equity transaction which would place a Middle Eastern government in an ownership position in a key U.S. stock exchange.
As a result of the transaction, Dubai will also acquire 28 percent of the London Stock Exchange, one of the oldest and largest stock exchanges in the world.
The transaction is being made through Borse Dubai, a holding company 100 percent owned by the government of the Emirate of Dubai and controlled by Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, the head of the Dubai ruling family.

Fed rate cut abandons dollarU.S. currency plummets to match Canadian for first time since 1976. International markets are viewing the Federal Reserve's decision this week to cut the federal funds benchmark rate by 50 basis points – or half a percentage point – as a sign that the Federal Reserve has abandoned the dollar to protect the stock market.
And movements in international currency markets are giving warning signs that the dollar could collapse as a result.
Consider the mounting evidence of the dollar's imminent collapse following the Fed rate cut:
The dollar closed Thursday at 78.61 on the US Dollar Index, having crashed through the previous technical support level of 80 on the $US index. Analysts believe the next technical support level for the dollar on the index may be in the low 70s.
According to Bloomberg, the dollar has lost 6.2 percent this year alone against the euro, with the euro closing at historical highs at above $1.40 against the dollar, for the first time since the euro was created in 1999.
Bloomberg also reports the U.S. dollar is trading at a value equal to the Canadian dollar for the first time since Nov. 25, 1976, three decades ago when Pierre Trudeau was Canadian prime minister.
The Telegraph in the U.K. is reporting Saudi Arabia has refused for the first time to cut rates in tandem with the Federal Reserve, "signaling that the oil-rich Gulf kingdom is preparing to break the dollar currency peg in a move that risks setting off a stampede out of the dollar across the Middle East."
China, with $1.3 trillion in foreign exchange reserves as a result of the massive and growing $260 billion U.S. trade deficit, has taken huge losses with the falling dollar, given that some 80 percent of China's $1.3 trillion in foreign reserves is held in U.S. dollar assets, largely in U.S. treasury securities. In August, China threatened to exert the "nuclear option," a massive dollar sell-off to retaliate against signals the U.S. Congress was contemplating new regulations in response to poisoned food products and toys tainted with lead paint that have been delivered to the United States.

Muslim religion taught under guise of history'Students perform skits about the tenets of Islam belief'. The "Five Pillars" of Islam – charity, fasting, prayer, belief and pilgrimage – are being taught to public school students in Nyssa, Ore., under the guise of world history, the school has confirmed to WND, even though a parent raised a complaint about the same teachings a year ago.
In a letter to parents following the concerns that were raised at that point, Supt. Don Grotting and other school officials told parents that the text called "Journey Across Time" features a chapter on "Islamic Civilizations."
As part of that, "class activities have included guest speakers (including an American soldier serving in Iraq and a practicing Muslim woman who is an American citizen living in Mountain Home) who talked about geography, dress, climate, religion, economy and culture and student skits, in which students prepare and perform three- to five-minute skits about the tenets of Islam belief: charity, fasting, prayer, belief, and pilgrimage."
Janine Weeks, the curriculum director at the school, this week told WND that the curriculum, and class activities, are continuing.
"We've not made any changes," she said. "The content standards require that we present information about the rise of Islam in the context of world history." http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=57738 (you have to read the entire article to understand the pro-muslim/anti-Jewish-Christian view the book and curriculum really is.)

WASHINGTON — The Senate on Thursday overwhelmingly passed a measure condemning MoveOn.org for a newspaper ad it ran last week attacking Gen. David Petraeus. The move came as President Bush accused Democrats of cowering to the liberal political action group.
The measure passed in a 72-25 vote, with none of the Democratic presidential candidates supporting it. Sponsored by Texas Republican Sen. John Cornyn, never one to shy away from forcing Democrats to go on record on politically sticky issues, the amendment to the defense authorization bill did win the backing of 23 Democrats. (my note: the fact that the New York Times ran this ad, the fact that 24 Democrats voted in favor of this act, show pure fact, that the cancer of treason is growing unfettered inside the U.S, by it's own citizens and politicians.)

I hear on the radio, see on the TV, read the newspaper and internet news, story after story of how the United States is accommodating more and more the 'wants' and 'demands' of non-Americans, non-U.S. citizens, and those who WILL betray the Constitution in the end and/or during conflict. One can tell me, Chicken Little, the sky is falling....and I'll say...yes it is.
History is against us, and our lack of truely learning and teaching the lesson's of history will be the demise of this Nation. Unless...you, like me, begin acting, you start with writing your own blog, and stand for your convictions whenever challenged.

When one (being American) thinks of Japanese TV, one thinks of the crazy game shows, which are a good laugh, or Godzilla. Over the past few years, being that my better half is originally from Okinawa, we rent many Japanese language DVD's to watch. Me, being a typical American, I speak English, and a smattering of Spanish courtesy DoD, so my wife will give me the condensed version translation as we watch.
We watch a comedy newlywed show, a 'Discovery' /game show, and many different movies, and a few drama series. I've gleaned more information from that 'Discovery' show that any I've seen on our Disv/TLC/AnmlPlnt/Trav channels. They go everywhere and do it in a 60 minute show that is also entertaining as a game show.
What I also like about the movies is that, there's no constant, blantant, sex, sex, sex that has mired Hollywood's idea of film. Plus many of the movies have very common man/woman themes. For instance, we watched the movie "Yamato", which was about the battleship 'Yamato', and the story centered not around the Captain-Officers, wives, Diplomats, and cheating and sex, sex, sex, but was a real story that centered on an enlisted group that manned an anti-aircraft gun. Also loosely was told the story of the head cook. It was a very good movie. We watched a movie, kind of like Cinderella Man, well, it was a very good movie that had a positive message. No one was killed, no one was taking drugs, no one was having sex every ten minutes.
One of the daughter's gave my wife a DVD rental they had, 'Crash'. I was a bit skeptical going in, and my skeptism was dead on. Crash was a very over the top character stereotype, and we got about 10 minutes into it before we both 'crashed' and hit the off button. 

 September 17, 2007

 September 16, 2007

About a month ago, we watched a movie about a real life person: Teresa Teng http://teresateng.org/ who was a singer who hit it big in the 1970/80's. What struck me the most about Teresa Teng was her conviction of humanity, freedom, and democracy. Hollyweird has it's own brand of pseudo-conscience celebrities, but none of the walk their talk. Teresa did. She went to a pro-democracy rally despite government order's barring her from doing so in Hong Kong when the Commies were taking control.
During that scene, I thought about Hollywood-weird's current crop of comparison females to Teresa - Brittany Spears, Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton, and even throw in Madonna, and none of them could stand in the same room as Teresa. Our Western version of the pop idol is so self absorbed, the truth plight of mankind's struggles are truely unknown to the like aforementioned.
I used to be a big movie, TV hound, but since about 1990, there has been a continual decline in American TV/Movie production and product. Now with Kathy Griffin's anti-Christian remark and stance, it only demonstrates and adds fact that Hollwyood is truely in a moral, ethical, and creative decline. While I"m on this subject of Kathy Griffin's trash talk and Hollywood/Los Angeles attack on Christianity, I am giving this warning. God said He is a jealous and vengful God, and one of His big warnings was to never worship 'idols' over Him. So if one morning soon, you flip on your morning TV news show (mine is Fox & Friends) and see "News Alert": Massive quake slides California into sea. I believe there will be a good 'celestrial' warning prior, God's last chance to mend your ways warning. But, the more Los Angeles becomes Sodom, the sooner the 'big one' will hit.
Oh yeah, I heard you in the rear, saying, what about all those Japanes 'manga' comics and movies about rape, mascocism, horror......that is called 'culture creep'. It's a cancer that plagues many Nations outside of the U.S. A cancer I call: "Kalifornification". Look at any bad kind of social behavior that is popular....it's source can be traced to California. Al Qaeda is something else, they are just murderers, pure and simple. I'm talking the negative anti-social, destructive behaviors of youth in a progressive society. Rap music and it's lifestyle is one of thee biggest, followed by illicit drug use, which almost go hand in hand these days. Kalifornification, the cancer the U.S. gave the World.
TMZ started their own TV show this past week and to TMZ's credit, they did a 'man in the street' spot where a reporter was asking grown women that were out 'clubbing' when 9/11 happend in what year. The majority did not know, and one woman said 'who cares'. I guess her and James Brolin can both have a Happy 9/11 next year when it gives the in California another 'excuse' for 'a party', to use drugs illictly, drink to excess, and have sex with whomever they wish while burning a Christian bible. That in a nutshell is today's California.
We used to enjoy watching all of the Award shows, but since the decline in behavior of the men and women of the silver screen and vinyl recordings, we quit, as many Americans have quit. I'd rather rent a Japanese DVD TV show and gain something valuable than waste my time on a waste of humanity.