Time to swim over to the other side of the planet to watch inept diplomacy at work in Asia. For this, Xinhuanet is a dry source of breaking news, the Chinese don't even bother with propaganda points, it is all so obvious. North Korea is spitting in our eyes again with impunity and South Korea is saying no to our demand they pay for our military which many Koreans hate at this point. I supply video proof of this.
dpa German Press Agency
Published: Wednesday November 29, 2006Wellington- The world's top spy chiefs - including the heads of the CIA and British, Australian and Canadian agencies - have been meeting in secret this week in New Zealand. The elite Anglo-Saxon group is known as Echelon. It intercepts and records telephone calls, e-mails and other forms of electronic communication.
The gathering was held in New Zealand because the country's spy agency, the Security Intelligence Service (SIS), is celebrating its 50th anniversary.
Dear Echelon. Snooping without warrants on our private affairs! How delightful. Perhaps there are many Americans and other 'Anglo Saxons' who think spying is a good thing, England, our foundation stone, is seeped in cameras and spies, they are everywhere even as simple civility collapses. The model we are aping is the Soviet Police State. What a fine thing that is.
&hearts North Korea spies on all its citizens like crazy but it resents us spying on them.
PYONGYANG, Nov. 30 (Xinhua) -- The United States committed more than 170 cases of aerial espionage against the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) in November, the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on Thursday, citing a military resource.The DPRK accused the United States of using tactical reconnaissance planes, including EP-3, to conduct night flights over Taebu Islet and the areas of Hoengsong and Yangphyong in a bid to spy on the DPRK.
The IDF flies with impunity over Lebanon and Palestine and sneers at everyone. We do the same thing in the Middle East and Asia. If the North Koreans are pissed about this, you can bet, the Chinese communist leaders are not happy, either. They are still lying low, letting us abuse our welcome, but imagining they will allow this to be the status quo forever is foolish.
Americans rarely get any real news from anywhere. I have watched for years as the Korean people fought our military bases with great energy and heroism. They are literally in a life and death battle, trying to stop our bases which we have decided to move to the southern half of South Korea. The resentment our soldiers are creating is very intense and I am puzzled as to what we, the American people, are getting for all this!
Japan wants to control Korea and they have latched onto our miliary to do this and the Koreans see us as proxies for the hated Japanese and this, combined with the Japanese refusal to pay reparations for WWII or pay the girls who were put into sexual slavery, this means a lot of bad blood which wasn't our fault and yet here we are, standing with the Japanese and not the Chinese or Koreans!
Here is a video of South Koreans attacking an American military base, and I do mean ATTACKING. Furiously. This last June.
&hearts The USA is going bankrupt.
SEOUL, Nov. 30 (Xinhua) -- The South Korean government said Thursday that it failed to reach an agreement during a two-day negotiation with the United States on how to share the defense cost for the U.S. forces stationed on the country.The government plans to continue consultations with the U.S. side through diplomatic channels to complete the defense cost-sharing negotiations, said a press release by the Foreign Ministry.
It was the sixth time that South Korea and the United States failed to strike a deal on the issue.
Here is an anti-american military demonstration that turned violent last year.
Pyeongtaek, South Korea - The Autonomous Peace Village of Daechuri has been resisting the expansion of U.S. Army base Camp Humphreys for over three years. Within the past month, they have been attacked three times. This attack was the most devastating thus far.The attack lasted from 9 in the morning to 5 in the afternoon. They invaded the village from four different directions, targetting distant areas within the vast farmland, spreading the 100 villagers, human rights activists, and supporters dangerously thin. The riot police escorted backhoes, bulldozers, and cement trucks.
Why are we doing this? It makes zero sense. Hearts and minds! If our military is turning people away from us, this becomes increasingly expensive and increasingly useless. What are our goals? To hold the entire planet down under our boots? Are we the Soviet Union?
The Soviets, like us today, didn't produce much of anything exportable except military equipment and rockets. This model has been shown to be a huge failure. So why are we imitating them? Once upon a time, when they had nothing good to export, America was the world's number one exporter of manufactured goods.
Today, the question is, do we make anything aside from rockets and military equipment? No? Haha.
&hearts We decreed, no I-pods for Kim!
By Nick Farrell: Thursday 30 November 2006, 07:29THE US government has decided that world pariah North Korea will not be allowed to bask in the radiance of the Apple iPod.
OK. Who makes I-pods?
China. Enough said.
Narita (Japan) Nov 30: US envoy Christopher Hill said today the ball was now in North Korea's court, admitting there remained "a lot of work to do" to restart talks on ending its nuclear programme.Hill, paying a brief visit to Japan on his way back from crunch talks with North Korea in Beijing, said, however, that he remained optimistic talks would resume sometime in December.
"I want to stress the ball is in their court. They know what they have to do," hill told reporters at Narita international airport near Tokyo, before heading back to the United States.
North Korea knows perfectly well what to do: wait until we are really freaking out in Iraq and then slug this ball back into our mid drift.
Kim is very good at this. Baby dragon will still go 'boom' and smuggling I-pods from China is laughably easy. No sane nation will ever disarm again. None. Our foolish invasion of Iraq right on the heels of the UN's certification of disarmament, taught everyone a sharp lesson: do not trust the USA. Do not cooperate with the USA. Do not make deals with the USA.
Whack. Now the ball is back in our court. I put it there for the North Koreans. What is Condi Rice going to say about that?
Whack.


What I can never understand about protests against the USFK is that US forces are only in Korea at the request of the ROK government. If they really want USFK to leave, all they need do is ask. Of course, then ROK would be required to pay for its' own defense, something it wants to avoid at all costs. But that doesn't stop Hanchongrun and other groups from making a fuss about it.
Posted by: dudeinwales | December 01, 2006 at 04:53 AM
I am quite positive that the rulers in South Korea have something or even a lot to gain from having our troops there. Whether bribes, kickback schemes, or whatever, they profit emmensely, while showing only token support to the peasants who want us gone so they can have their farms and homes back.
Obviously, it is much cheaper for us to keep 30,000 men here in America than in Korea, but that would mean a few at the top could not become filthy rich.
There is always a dark, political motive behind seemingly illogical situations. We are just not allowed to see it until it is way too late to do anything about it.
Actually, now that I think about it, this little game has been going on since the dawn of time. A recent find in Asia shows that myths about an ancient religion based on a Python and other animals is all true, as a huge stone python was unearthed inside a cave where ritual ceremonies were practiced. People would come from hundreds of miles away to make offerings to the python god in this cave.
Nothing wrong with this -- except -- behind the giant stone python was a hidden chamber in which a shaman probably hid and "spoke" for the python. He could also "enter" the python and "disappear" because a tunnel leading from the secret chamber allowed him to crawl out on the mountainside unseen.
So, we are back where we started. It is the Wizard of Oz again and again. All cults are based on this concept. That is, a little man, often with no heart, not much brain, and no courage at all, hiding behind a curtain pulling emotional, psychological, or even physical levers to control others.
Only a few are brave enough to walk up and pull back the curtain and unveil the secret.
This does not mean there are no gods, no spirits, no forces in the world other than ourselves. It simply means that they do not need us to speak for them or write for them. They can do this themselves. If we cannot hear them, see them or feel their presence, then that is our fault -- not theirs.
Posted by: DeVaul | December 01, 2006 at 08:37 AM
So, Toto blew it for the shaman when dogs were domesticated? Heh.
Yes, the hidden pundit: they last only so long as they are RIGHT. when they screw up, they get deposed or their heads are used for kicking ball games.
Posted by: Elaine Meinel Supkis | December 01, 2006 at 10:23 AM