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Showing posts with label Asia - China. Show all posts
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Tuesday, December 6, 2016

HOW GENERAL JAMES "MAD DOG" MATTIS, Trump's selection for Defense Secretary, refused to reinforce Marines vehicles after promising to do so, costing lost lives and limbs

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trumpmattis* NOBODY IS PERFECT, and Trump's supporters know this better than anyone else. 
* But in spite of General Mattis' many qualities, the public deserves to know about his flaws and failures as well. 
* It is quite likely that Trump did not know about the following issues in his background. 
* Even if he did, trying to find a flawless and saintly man to fill the position of Defense Secretary would be an impossible task. 
* Trump tries to pick the best in the bunch - after political and practical considerations, such as avoiding antagonizing the powerful GOP establishment too much - and hope that things will work out in the end.
 
How General Mattis, Trump's chosen Defense Secretary, refused to reinforce vehicles after having promised to do so, Bush Pentagon report says - costing Marines lives and limbs
 
By Debbie Schlussel
 
Gen. James “Mad Dog” Mattis is at fault for the loss of many Marines’ lives and limbs, according to a BUSH-era Pentagon Inspector General Report citing his neglect, negligence, and what is a clear case of dereliction of duty. He was too busy setting up sweetheart business deals for his future and promoting faulty products on the U.S. Armed Forces. Mattis has Marine blood on his hands, and that alone should disqualify him for the job as Donald Trump’s Defense Secretary.

But you won’t read about this in most of the mainstream media and definitely not the conservative media and talk radio, where Mattis is being uniformly and unanimously lionized and beatified for sainthood . . . sainthood he doesn’t deserve.
 
Mattis has a lot of Marine blood on his hands because he ignored orders and his own commitment to use reinforced vehicles so Marines didn’t get blown to bits, the report says. At the same time, while he could not be bothered to protect the men and women in his charge, Mattis was busy trying to force a faulty blood-testing system on the Marine Corps so he could cash in on it later.
 
Continue reading this, a related article, and watch Video podcast by Michael Savage on how Washington swamp creatures manipulated Trump into phoning Taiwan's government and antagonizing China.

Sunday, November 27, 2016

CELEBRITIES LOVED A TYRANT - They mourn the passing of mass murderer Fidel Castro - List of Castro's crimes against the Cuban people - Fidel Castro's fortune is estimated at close to ONE BILLION dollars

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Wall Street Journal:  By 2005 close to ten thousand names had been verified as victims killed by Fidel Castro's revolution.  The number could be ten times higher.   Many more have died trying to flee the dictatorship, fighting the regime, and as soldiers forced to participate in Fidel's revolutionary adventures abroad on behalf of the Soviets.  
  • In the aftermath of  Fidel Castro's death, it is relevant to note how much American celebrities contributed to this mass murderer's success because he was a leftist, and celebrities never met a leftist cause they didn't like. 
  • Augusto Pinochet, Chile's military dictator, was vilified by celebrities and their fans because he was right wing, although his crimes never reached the level of those perpetrated by Fidel Castro. 
  • These days bashing Israel is the favorite, and often only cause for celebrities and their fans, although China occupies Tibet.  China engages in extreme political oppression and the ongoing extraction of thousands of political prisoners' organs for the profitable China state industry of medical transplants (see more further down this page). 
  • When was the last time you heard celebrities or human rights activists boycotting and protesting against the government of China?   Or against the Cuban regime's oppression of its people?
  • Che Guevara, another mass murderer, is still an icon representing chic rebellion against authority.
  • Fidel Castro hired Nazi SS members to train his troops.
  • Fidel's fortune is estimated at $900 million

Art and celebrities are used by the elites to manipulate the masses, normalizing and mainstreaming certain political ideologies, as well as bad habits (smoking is still being promoted in films), and depraved lifestyles.
 
Whether celebrities represent glamour or faux-rebelliousness, they mesmerize the masses.  They can influence the articles you purchase, the way you dress, how you vote in national elections, and even how you live your life.
 
They don't always earn money in proportion to their talent but in how well they manipulate the media to promote their popularity.
 
Celebrities are both puppets and manipulators.  They, their work, and the elites are all part of  the same web of deception. 

As puppets celebrities themselves are manipulated and pressured to go along with liberal causes, lest they may be blacklisted.  Countless artists who had agreed to perform in Israel have been forced to retract because of peer pressure to boycott Israel.

So called celebrities rise to prominence not always due to their intellectual abilities or education, but to their good looks, artistic work, or their bizarre lifestyles. 
 
Celebrities preaching to the rest of us often cannot even manage their own lives with a minimum or self-control and decorum, engaging in substance addiction, promiscuity, and even outright depravity (idolized Michael Jackson was a well-known pedophile). 

 
 
Fidel Castro's crimes - A summary
 
Summary by Professor Carlos Eire of Yale University, writing for the Washington Post - Read entire article further on this page.
 

●He turned Cuba into a colony of the Soviet Union and nearly caused a nuclear holocaust.
●He sponsored terrorism wherever he could and allied himself with many of the worst dictators on earth.
●He was responsible for so many thousands of executions and disappearances in Cuba that a precise number is hard to reckon.
He brooked no dissent and built concentration camps and prisons at an unprecedented rate, filling them to capacity, incarcerating a higher percentage of his own people than most other modern dictators, including Stalin.
●He condoned and encouraged torture and extrajudicial killings.
 
He forced nearly 20 percent of his people into exile, and prompted thousands to meet their deaths at sea, unseen and uncounted, while fleeing from him in crude vessels.
●He claimed all property for himself and his henchmen, strangled food production and impoverished the vast majority of his people.
He outlawed private enterprise and labor unions, wiped out Cuba’s large middle class and turned Cubans into slaves of the state.
●He persecuted gay people and tried to eradicate religion.
He censored all means of expression and communication.
 
●He established a fraudulent school system that provided indoctrination rather than education, and created a two-tier health-care system, with inferior medical care for the majority of Cubans and superior care for himself and his oligarchy, and then claimed that all his repressive measures were absolutely necessary to ensure the survival of these two ostensibly “free” social welfare projects.
He turned Cuba into a labyrinth of ruins and established an apartheid society in which millions of foreign visitors enjoyed rights and privileges forbidden to his people.
●He never apologized for any of his crimes and never stood trial for them. 

 
 
 Fidel Castro, idolized by American celebrities
 
Breitbart.  Cuban dictator Fidel Castro has died at the age of 90. Through the years, a long list of Hollywood elites have been bewitched by Castro, despite his Communist regime’s imprisonment of political opponents, homosexuals, and journalists.  Below is a list of some of the entertainers who have praised and  rubbed shoulders with the deceased dictator:

Continue reading this article and others exposing Castro's crimes, and related material such as China's own organ harvesting practices, ignored by celebrities.

Friday, August 26, 2016

ORGANIC FOOD IMPORTED FROM CHINA - THE SHOCKING TRUTH

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  • Did you know that almost ALL vitamins and dietary supplements sold in North America are manufactured in China? 
  • While vitamins are good for you, they may have been made in factories where standards are not as exacting as those in the US and Canada. 
  • We really do not know the true quality of the listed ingredients, or what else is there.  Your best bet is to get vitamins directly from the foods you eat. 
  • When Canadians ask for the origin of a particular food in the bulk section of their supermarket they will told that it comes from the United States.  Not exactly. 
  • If you do a little research on your own you will discover that, although it has been IMPORTED FROM the United States, it has been GROWN elsewhere. 
  • There are large food importing companies that buy products from China, Vietnam, India, and other Asian and African countries, and then resell them to food markets in the US and Canada.   
  • The label "organic" for Chinese food has to be taken on faith because that country does not allow western associations of organic products to check the conditions under which those foods are grown, irrigated, and harvested.  For all you know, they could be irrigated with river water downstream from heavily polluting manufacturing plants.   
  • Unfortunately, even when organic food is indeed grown in the United States, it may have been irrigated with toxic fracking water.  Read more about it here:  http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2016/08/toxic-fracking-water-is-used-to.html 

'Organic' from China exposed: The shocking truth about 'organic' foods grown in the world's worst environmental cesspool

By Mike Adams, Natural News


USDA organic standards place no limits on how much mercury, lead, cadmium, arsenic and aluminium is allowed in so-called “organic” products imported from China.

Even further, there is no limit on the contamination of PCBs, BPA and other synthetic chemicals that’s allowed in certified organic foods, superfoods and supplements.

At this point, you’re probably shaking your head in disbelief and thinking, “No, that can’t be true. Organic standards must check for heavy metals and chemical contamination, right?”
 
No! “Organic” certifies a process of how food is grown or produced. It certifies that the farmer doesn’t add pesticides, herbicides, petroleum-based fertilizer, metals or synthetic chemicals to the crop (among other things), and it certifies that the soil must be free from such things for a certain number of years before organic certification is approved.
 
But organic certification does nothing to address environmental sources of pollution such as chemtrails, contaminated irrigation water, and fallout from industrial or chemical factories that might be nearby.  A certified organic farmer can use polluted water on their crops and still have the crops labeled “organic.”
 
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Friday, October 16, 2015

MIRAGE OR HIGH TECH EXPERIMENT? - SIGHTINGS OF A CITY FLOATING OVER CLOUDS IN CHINA - Captured on video - Not the first occurrence - Can be explained scientifically as a phenomenon called FATA MORGANA, but conspiracy theories went into overdrive

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CHINESE TV news reports have told how thousands of residents in TWO areas reported separately seeing a huge city form in the skies.

Thousands of people were said to be stunned by the apparition

Onlookers, some who are said to have videoed the bizarre event, were said to be mesmerised  as a towering city of sky scrapers appeared from the clouds.

Continue reading, see more images, and watch videos of this 2015 event, and of a similar sighting over Nigeria in 2011.

Monday, August 24, 2015

CAT SAVED FROM BEING SKINNED ALIVE AND COOKED IN CHINA - Animal rescue organization saves cat HURU and other animals from torture and death - Many of these pets are cooked alive because of the Chinese belief that they taste better that way

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Heartbreaking: In the photo above, Huru, the small white cat, is seen climbing the sides of the slaughterhouse enclosure at the Yulin Dog and Cat Meat Festival in China
Cat photographed in desperate bid to escape from Chinese butcher is saved by American animal shelter 
 
  • A cat named Huru was photographed climbing the side of a slaughterhouse enclosure at the Yulin Dog and Cat Meat Festival in China
  • Human Society International rescued Huru and others before being killed
  • Huru is recovering at the Washington Animal Rescue League
  • Thousands of dogs and cats are butchered at the festival each year
  •  According to the Humane Society, as many as 10 million dogs are killed for food annually in China, with up to 10,000 killed for the Yulin festival.
  • Stolen pets are transported in cages over long distances and for days without food or water. 
  • There is also the custom of cooking animals alive because they believe that the stress hormones released by the animal from such intense suffering make the meat taste better.  See link to actual photos of this 'tradition' further on this page.

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    Stories like these make the news, but the real solution to this barbaric custom would involve a COORDINATED INTERNATIONAL EFFORT, and so far there is none.   So we read stories of individual rescues, all very laudable but meaning very little as the torture and killing of dogs and cats happens in the millions each year. 
     
    Some publicized rescues may be used as ways for raising money for animal charities.  But so far there is no effective organized advocacy to persuade China and other countries such as South Korea and Vietnam to clamp down on the torture and skinning of animals while alive, for their use in the fur trade and traditional cuisine.
     
    Continue reading Huru's story, and see links to other related articles regarding the torture of dogs and cats in China and other South East Asian countries for their use in the fur trade and as food.

    Monday, June 22, 2015

    PUPPY IN CHINA LOVINGLY PLEADS FOR ATTENTION MINUTES BEFORE BEING SKINNED ALIVE AND COOKED - Many are also cooked alive because of S.E. Asian tradition that says that the hormones released by tortured animals are good for those who eat them, and also make the meat taste better

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    A puppy at China's Yulin festival unaware it is about to be skinned alive and cooked
    Heartbreaking image from China's annual dog meat festival where
    tens of thousands of animals are killed 
  • Thousands of dogs and cats butchered as Yulin festival gets underway
  • Slaughterers hit them over the head, cut their throats open then boil them 
  • As many as 10 million dogs are killed for food annually in China according to the Humane Society.
  • Up to 10,000 are killed for the Yulin festival alone.
  • The festival itself has no cultural significance, it was invented by dog meat traders in 2010 as a way to boost their flagging business. 
  • Opened mid fierce international criticism and clashes with protesters  
  • Many of them are stolen pets
  • Those raised for food spend their short lives inside cages, suffering from thirst, and never experiencing a kind human gesture.
  • Many of the animals die on the long truck journeys from across China with no food or water.
  • Others suffer from such horrendous injuries that they cannot stand in the filthy pens they are transferred to.
  • It is legal to eat dogs in China and the country has no law protecting the welfare of pets or the way in which they are slaughtered. 
  • Rescuing dogs does not help, as dog farms will simply raise more for sale.  There needs to be a coordinated international effort to stop the consumption of dogs and cats in China and in other SE Asian countries.

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    Playfully pawing at a man's leg, a puppy begs for attention as most young pets would do.  At first glance, this could be any cherished canine simply craving more love from a distracted owner.
     
    But this is far from a walk round the park – this poor puppy is about to die a barbaric death at a vile dog meat festival that has sparked outrage around the world.
     
    He is one of thousands of canines that will be skinned alive, butchered and eaten as the market in China got underway amid clashes with protesters.
     
    As many as 10,000 dogs, many of them stolen pets, are slaughtered for the market held deep in the largely rural and poor Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region to mark the summer solstice. 
     
    Continue reading.  Caution:  disturbing images ahead. 
    You will be warned before seeing photos of Asians cooking dogs alive, with a long blank space on the page beforehand.

    Saturday, February 14, 2015

    INSIDE CHINESE FUR FARMS WHERE THEY SKIN DOGS ALIVE to make coats to be sold in the West - VIDEO

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    Exposing these atrocities is not enough.
    The world and animal rights activists already know.
    What's URGENTLY needed now
    is mass protest action in the West. 

    Those companies and countries involved in trade with China and other S.E. Asia nations must be persuaded to take notice and pressure those countries  -  now LEGALLY engaged in torturing cats, dogs and other animals  -  to enact and enforce appropriate animal rights legislation, with severe penalties for those who violate it.  
     
    But since laws are only partially enforced in that part of the world, there must be a zero tolerance for Western purchase of Asian fur.
     
    Activists need to focus on Western companies still selling fur (regardless of its provenance), and then also on major Western companies trading with China and other SE nations that so blatantly torture animals for profit. 

    All of them must be made aware that it's not enough to improve conditions for workers making products for the West, but that it is imperative to demand humane treatment for animals too.

    There are lots of sites with petitions, but they are of limited value without political action to stop the importation of furs obtained through torture.  There needs to be a greater effort by activists at organizing and taking united action.
     
    Caged: This raccoon dog is one of hundreds held at a Chinese fur farm, where they live just a few months 
  • Animal rights activists infiltrated two farms and market near Beijing
  • Each had more than 300 'raccoon dogs', related to domestic dogs
  • They secretly filmed after pretending to be potential buyers from Europe
  • Video shows grinning worker ripping fur up around live animal's head
  • The caged animals show evident signs of mental illness.
  • They experience and witness horrors day after day.
  •  A U.S. report in 2010 said 30 million mink, 25 million foxes and 15 million raccoon dogs were set to be slaughtered for fashion in China that year - up 15 million on the year before.



  • Video footage exposes the Chinese fur farms where 'racoon' dogs are skinned alive en-masse and turned into luxury coats sold in the West.
     
    Animal rights activists smuggled secret cameras into farms and markets near Beijing, where they spent three weeks pretending to be potential business partners from Europe.
     
    There they filmed the industrial scale of fur farming, a practice banned in Britain 14 years ago but largely unrestricted in many other countries including China.
     
    A grinning worker then demonstrated how to skin the animal to a watching crowd, ripping off its pelt around its head with half a dozen forceful tugs while its legs remained hooked to the back of a truck. 
     
    The two activists behind the footage were part of the campaign group Animal Equality based in Los Angeles, California.
    Continue reading and see disturbing images of animal suffering and human sadistic cruelty in China fur farm.
    And see hidden video

    Wednesday, February 4, 2015

    VIETNAM CRUSHES THOUSANDS OF SMUGGLED CATS and kittens to death. Previous report said they had been buried alive - Cats and dogs are raised to be tortured and murdered to be eaten in China, Vietnam, S. Korea and other countries in S.E. Asia - Often dogs and cats are boiled alive because they find them tastier that way

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    'Delicacy': Three tonnes of cats, many stolen pets, would have been sold to restaurants in HanoiThousands of kittens CRUSHED to death with a dumper truck in mass execution just hours after they were rescued from dinner table in Vietnam.

  • Cats were being smuggled from China to the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi
  • Police found three tonnes of them crammed into bamboo cages last week
  • Were going to be sold to restaurants where they're considered a delicacy
  • The cats were crushed to death and buried to prevent 'spread of disease'
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    Wednesday, January 14, 2015

    ONGOING HORRIFIC SLAUGHTER OF DOGS AND CATS FOR FOOD IN CHINA - Animals are often cooked alive because of the belief that stress hormones from the tortured animals make the meat taste better

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    UPDATE - June 2015 - PUPPY IN CHINA LOVINGLY PLEADS FOR ATTENTION MINUTES BEFORE BEING SKINNED ALIVE AND COOKED
    See how dogs and cats, often stolen pets, are packed in tight cages, skinned alive, and then stunned before being cooked. 
    Pictures of other dogs being cooked alive
    Read more:  http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2015/06/puppy-in-china-lovingly-pleads-for.html
     
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    Chinese customers browse cats and dogs in cages beside the road, then select one to be drowned and cooked.
  • Chinese street vendors caught on camera selling dog and cat meat
  • Animals are kept in cages and customers choose which they want
  • The animal is drowned in a river and then butchered by the roadside
  • Traders said they started drownings to avoid 'distressing customers

  • Horrible: Dogs and cats are kept in cages in order for customers to pick the animal they want, after which it is 'humanely' drowned by being shoved in a bag and thrown in a nearby river
    The brutal practices of China's street trade in cat and dog meat has been revealed in a shocking report on local television.
     
    Chinese street traders caught on TV selling fresh animal meat, proudly explained that the animals are 'humanely' drowned by being shoved in a bag and thrown in a nearby river. (Or in a bucket, as in the following picture.) 
    Disturbing pictures, including those of dogs being boiled alive because to SE Asians they taste better that way

    Saturday, October 4, 2014

    US PRESIDENT REFUSES TO SUPPORT HONG KONG DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT - BUT STRONGLY CONDEMNS ISRAEL - UK joins the US in dismissing Hong Kong demonstrators pleading for democracy

    BREITBART - Hong Kong's pro-democracy demonstrators protesting China’s attempts to quash their rights to self government appear to be only the latest pro-Western group forsaken by the Obama administration. Meanwhile, its high volume criticism of Israel continues unabated.   First, Hong Kong.  Protest in that former British colony have grown massively.
    President Obama

    The demonstrators oppose the communist government in Beijing's  refusal to stand by the provisions of the 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration regarding conditions for Hong Kong government after its return to China from Britain. 
     
    Protestors claim that China reneged on that agreement in June when it announced that Beijing would decide which candidates would be permitted to run in the 2017 elections to pick the self governing city’s next Chief Executive thereby insuring it would have full control over all the candidates that seek that office.
    Read more on the Hong Kong crisis, and Israel's response to the White House attack

    Tuesday, July 22, 2014

    CHINA'S FORESTS OF ROCK - GIANT ARCHES AND PILLARS MADE BY COLLAPSED SUPERCAVES AND THE ACTION OF WATER

    
    Vast: Jaw-dropping limestone 'karsts' formed by erosion over 270million years soar hundreds of feet into the air across a huge region of southern China. Pictured, climber Emily Harrington takes the hard way up Moon Hill, an arch which was formed from the remains of a collapsed cave. Sightseers can take an easier dirt track
    Moon Hill, formed from the remains of a collapsed cave 
    Forests of rock: Awe-inspiring images reveal the towering arches and pillars of limestone which dominate ancient lands of China 
  • Jaw-dropping limestone 'karsts' soar hundreds of feet into the air across a vast region of southern China
  • Arches, spires and pillars were formed over 270million years and conceal some of the world's largest caves below
  • Landscape is being documented in unprecedented detail by a British-led team of cavers and explorers

  • Otherworldly: The landscape was formed by water in the humid region seeping in through cracks in porous rock and gradually opening up sinkholes, fissures and caves
    Rock sculpted by water
    Hewn ruthlessly from the earth by water over 270million years, these stone structures are a testament to the power of the natural world. 
     
    The pillars, arches and columns rise hundred of feet into the air over a vast region of southern China, striking awe into observers who have flocked to the area for thousands of years. 
     
    Known as karsts, the limestone structures - captured in these images for National Geographic Magazine - are created when water forces fissures, sinkholes, cracks and caverns into the soft rock, leaving only a series of monoliths above ground.

    Wednesday, June 18, 2014

    CHINA ADVANCES ITS DOG-EATING CELEBRATION TO AVOID PROTESTS - ALSO dogs, rabbits and other animals STILL BEING SKINNED WHILE ALIVE in China fur farms

    Unpopular: The Yulin government has sought to distance itself from the feasting, saying it is not officially endorsed
    The cruellest festival in the world? China advances its summer solstice DOG-EATING celebrations to avoid protests by animal rights activists.
     
    Residents have begun killing and eating dogs early in celebration of the summer solstice in a bid to avoid protests by animal rights campaigners.  Some residents of the southern Chinese city of Yulin started gathering last weekend and eating dog meat and lychees to celebrate the longest day of the year, ahead of Saturday's actual solstice, state media reported.
     
    WAITING TO BE SLAUGHTERED
    The locals wanted to avoid protests which have in recent years seen the festival, slaughterhouses and markets selling dogs targeted as part of a social media campaign and ongoing online petition against the practice.  The public uproar reflects the increasing affluence of ordinary Chinese, who keep pets, travel overseas and are changing attitudes toward traditions they may not have questioned before.
     
    Photos on state media showed groups of Yulin city residents tucking into plates of meat and vegetables around dining tables strewn with lychees. Other photos, which circulated widely on Chinese microblogs, were of skinned, cooked dogs hanging from hooks at street stalls or piled on tables.

    Tuesday, May 6, 2014

    CHINA - ANOTHER KNIFE TERROR ATTACK ON PASSERSBY BY ISLAMIST SEPARATISTS

    A middle-aged Westerner is among six victims wounded in a knife attack at a Chinese train station today, according to witnesses.  Two women and three men, including a European man his 50s, were said to be among those injured by assailants wielding foot-and-a-half-long knives at Guangzhou Railway Station in Guangdong province.  Armed officers shot and wounded one of the attackers, said Guangzhou police. Local media reported that a second suspect was captured fleeing the scene.  Officials are blaming the attack on 'terrorists' from Xinjiang, a mainly Muslim western province in the grip of a separatist insurgency. Police later denied a Westerner had been involved in the attack, despite the witnesses' reports.
     
    Read more and see pictures
     
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    South China Morning Post report of the terror attack
     
     
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    Blogger's Note:
    Violence and terror by Muslim separatists in China happens with shocking frequency.  You would think that China would be more sympathetic with Israel's own vulnerability to terror from Arabs who want a state by taking over Jewish land. 
     
    China, however, has too often joined the chorus of international criticism against the state of Israel, while supporting the creation of an Islamic Palestinian state.
     
    In spite of their support for the Palestinians,  China's desire for a foothold in the Middle East has prompted it to engage in increased trade and investment deals with Israel. 
     
    With White House rising hostility towards Israel, and frequent US government  hints of boycotts and Arab terror unless Israel submits to  partition under US government terms, Israel is forced to look for economic partners elsewhere.  China is happy to comply.

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    Plans for a China-Israel partnership in building the RED-MED 300 kilometer freight line between Eilat on the Red Sea and the Mediterranean. 
     
     

    The USSR and then Russia have had a similarly consistent pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel attitude over many years.  And like China, Russia too contends with a violent Muslim population that resorts to gruesome terror to make the point that they want a separate independent country.  The parallels between their Muslim minority and that of the Arabs in Israel escapes Russian comprehension.  And so their media and government routinely take the side of Arab terrorists over that of Israel.

    This inconsistence of principles extends to Europe as well - struggling as they are to contain their own Muslim residents push to Islamize the continent.  Europeans are sued, threatened, raped, and killed by Muslims.  But who do the Europeans really hate?  Israel and the Jews.  Billions of government Euros go to non-governmental organizations to incite Palestinian Arabs and to agitate against Israeli authorities.

    That attitude has been absorbed by the United States executive in the last few years.  While Islam is proclaimed at every opportunity as the Religion of Peace, the US government reserves all its diplomatic arsenal to make veiled threats against Israel and pressure it to partition its land to create ANOTHER Islamic terror state on Jewish land.

    And the picture would not be complete without mentioning Christian churches.  Christians are being murdered and persecuted all over the Muslim world, but churches barely dare to denounce it.   Why?  Because there is a tacit agreement between Christianity and Islam to support Islam as long as they are killing Jews and pursuing the dismantling of Israel. 

    This is how you will read about the Pope's next visit to Israel, where he will meet AGAIN with the terrorist president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, stating that the terrorists are the victims and the besieged Jews the victimizers.   This is a system of values not inconsistent with the Vatican's own protection for priests who rape children over the victims themselves.

    United Nations scathing report of Vatican protection of priests who rape children
    http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2014/02/un-scathing-report-against-vatican-for.html
     
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