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Is China building a carrier? By Yihong Chang JDW Correspondent & Andrew Koch JDW Bureau Chief Hong Kong & Washington, DC Chinese shipyard workers have been repairing a badly damaged ex-Russian aircraft carrier and have repainted it with the country's military markings, raising the question once again of whether China is pursuing longer-term plans to field its first carrier. In the latest developments, images show that workers at the Chinese Dalian Shipyard have repainted the ex-Russian Kuznetsov-class aircraft carrier Varyag with the markings and colour scheme of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy (PLAN). Additional new photographs show that other...

<p>Regarding your protest outside of Crawford, Texas, and your many statements regarding the death of your son, Casey, and against the war in Iraq, where your son was fighting for his country and died in that war, I have this to say to you.</p>

The purpose of the "RISING SEA DRAGON IN ASIA", web site is to chronicle, document and analyse the rapid buildup, growth and modernization of the Red Chinese navy (PLAN), and attempt to put that growth and modernization into perspective as it relates to the current geo-political situation, and as it relates to United States vital interests in general, and particularly as it relates to the United States Navy. The Site contains a extensive section with a side by side pictorial and technical comparison between the developing PLAN and the US Navy, as well as sections documenting the rapid growth of...

What is Liberty? Well, IMHO, in the context of American liberty, ere's an answer.... Liberty is freedom from encumberance in an environment where the unalienable rights of mankind are both recognized and respected and where individual "Free Will" bounded by fundamental moral principle is the avenue for interaction in society . That's a lot of pretty words that basically say that if a people are to be free, they and their government have to recognize and respect the God-given rights of others and be moral. In fact, liberty can not coexist with widespread individual, or institutional immorality. Immorality places an...

NEW DELHI - India and China, the world's two most populous countries, agreed on Monday to create a "strategic partnership" in an effort to end their longstanding border dispute and boost trade and economic cooperation. The agreement signaled a significant shift in relations between the two Asian giants after decades of mutual distrust and suspicion. "India and China can together reshape the world order," Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said after a welcome ceremony for his Chinese counterpart, Premier Wen Jiabao, at India's presidential palace. Together the two nations account for one-third the world's population. The statement announcing the partnership...

I'm Katie, Jeff's oldest daughter. He asked me to write and update everyone. I posted a thread on Joanie's thread but it was so far down I didn't know if anyone would see. He pulled through surgery fine and is now home recovering. They did have more problems than anticipated and had to repair four sinuses instead of just two as well as remove a cyst. He thanks everyone for their thoughts and prayers and is hoping to be back online in the next few days. Thanks for all of your support!

Jeff Head will be undergoing surgery this morning, Friday the 11th. The surgery has been a long time coming, in that he has experienced, for the last several months, headaches, dizziness, lightheadedness, and a significant loss of stamina. After enduring a battery of tests, it was determined that his major organs are in good shape but he is suffering from a severe case of sunisitis. This morning’s surgery will involve going into the two frontal sinuses and surgically opening up proper drainage for them, while also letting them drain, medicating them, and attempting to clear them out without damaging the...

THE RISING SEA DRAGON IN ASIA 2005 UpdateBy Jeff Head, February 2005 As an update to the original "Rising Sea Dragon in Asia", that I publiushed in January of 2004 (and have been writing and warning about since 2000), I offer this update, dated in February of 2005. This report is fairly short and broad, and I believe does not contain the detail necessary to reflect the true scope of the emerging threat. But it does clearly indicate the nature and size of the current Red Chinese buildup, and their is only one principle power that such a buildup...

Hi Fellow FReepers,I am privileged to announce that Jeff Head, the 2001 Free Republic Person of the Year, has just created a single hardback volume of all five of the Dragon's Fury series books! Now, instead of getting one softback volume at a time, you can read the entire epic between two hard covers.This is a serious undertaking, to say the least! The collector's edition comes in at over 800 pages, by using a smaller than typical font, and putting many more lines on a page than you normally see. For those of us over 40, it will mean pulling...

Many of you know of my father. He is a combat vet of World War II of the Pacific Theater of Operations (PTO). Fomr time to time I have posted his articles have here on FR in the past and there have been several prayer threads for him due to his heart conditions, where the faith of others on his behalf, coupled with his own faith and the will of a loving Heavenly Father and the mercy of His son Jesus Christ, have worked miraculously on his behalf. Now, he has suffered another heart attack...his kidneys are failing...his lungs are...

The National Republican Congressional Committe has selected Freeper Jeff Head as one of its prestigious 2004 Ronald Reagan Gold Medal Award winners. Commenting directly to Mr. Head on his selection for this award, Tom Delay, the Majority Leader, wrote, "As a respected business leader in Idaho and a key member of our Business Advisory Council, it is my pleasure to announce your selection as a 2004 Ronald Reagan Republican Gold Medal winner. As a Ronald Regean Gold Medal Winner, you distinguished yourself as a business leader who contributed to the economic health of your community. Your support of President...

After a significant delay due to an error on the distrubtor's part, Volume V of the Dragon's Fury Series of novels, Eagle's Talons, is now fully available in printed format at the vairous outlets. This includes, Amazon --- Barnes & Noble --- Powells --- BooksAMillion. Thanks to all for your patience, encouragement and support. Now...let's all get out there and vote, communicate, educate, urge, and inform so we can avoid the tragedy of a Kerry presidency, something that would make the horrors described in the initial volumes of the Dragon's Fury Series (before we come back), a much more likely...

BEIJING: State oil giant Sinopec Group has signed a $70 billion oil field development and liquefied natural gas agreement with Iran, China's biggest energy deal with the No. 2 OPEC producer, an Iranian official said Friday. The preliminary deal may yield political benefits far sooner than commercial ones as Iran courts China's favor on the UN Security Council, where Beijing holds a potential veto over any action against the Islamic Republic's nuclear program. Under a memorandum of understanding signed Thursday, China's second-largest oil firm, Sinopec Group, will buy 250 million tons of LNG over 30 years from Iran and develop...

A lot of people have been emailing, fremailing and otherwise contacting me regarding the scarce availability of the printed version of Volume V of the Dragon's Fury Series of novels, which is a techno-thriller about how current conditions lead to World War. Here is a special from the official web site regarding the same: SPECIAL NOTE ABOUT THE AVAILABILITY OF THE PRINTED VERSION OF VOLUME V October 22, 2004 Just a quick update on the availability of the trade paperback version (printed version) of Volume V. I am very sorry for the ongoing delay. For some reason, the distributor has...

A STUDY IN REDUCING ISLAMIC RADICAL STRONGHOLDS AND MINIMIZING AMERICAN CASUALTIES: What follows is something I wrote not long after the Fallujah incident when the Americans there were killed and butchered and the islamic radicals made a party out of it. I commented to my wife at the time that we are in a war with gruesome, fierce, and dedicated radical islamic enemies as committed to their cause and willing to kill and die for it as any of the Nazis and Japanese our fathers fought. Also willing to indoctrinate their youth and have them particpate directly in the bloodletting....

The final Volume of freeper Jeff Head's self-published Dragon's Fury Series of novels, Volume V, Eagle's Talons, a fictional techno-thriller about how current conditions lead to global war, has moved into the #1 featured MSReader eBook position on Powell's. It has also been ranked as the #1 best selling MSReader eBook on Powells and the #2 featured Adobe eBook on the same site. The printed, trade paperback issue of Volume V will be coming out very soon on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Powells and elsewhere. THE DRAGON'S FURY SERIES A tecno-thriller series about America and World War

For those following the series, or otherwise interested, both eBook versions of Volume Five of Jeff Head's Dragon's Fury Series, Eagle's Talons, have now been published. The printed version, in trade paperback format, should be published within the next ten days to two weeks on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Powell's, and other places online. A final notification will be made when that occurs. Thanks to everyone for their faith, support, and encouragement during this project. It has been a long (over three years in the making) and gratifying project as we have tried to get the word out regarding current...

For those of us who have followed Freeper Jeff Head's series, "Dragon's Fury," through its currently published four volumes, all you can say to Jeff is . . . . Do you have a crystal ball? Without giving too much of the plot away, suffice it to say that with the events in Beslan and the possible shift in alliances in which the U.S. and Russia end up fighting certain Middle Eastern states together, we are only a couple of steps away from seeing his plot unfold.

RETAKING WAKE ISLAND Third Excerpt From Dragon's Fury - Eagle's Talons Volume V in the Dragon's Fury Series by JeffHead Copyright 2004 by Jeff Head, All rights reserved January 14, 2011, 04:48, local time Easternmost Observation Post CAS Forces, Wake Island Twenty-three year old Specialist Ni Ngyun carefully watched the Pacific Ocean to the East. He panned slowly from his right to his left, using his enhanced and magnified night vision gear. It was not a new task for him…it was routine…but it was one he took seriously. As a Vietnamese soldier here on Wake Island with other, principally Chinese,...

For all of those who have been praying for my brother, sadly, I must inform you that he passed away this afternoon at 5:57 PM in Denton, Texas. He died of respiratory failure associated with his lymphoma. We were set to take him home to in-home hospice care on Friday after some liquid was to be drained from his abdomen. Before that procedure could be preformed, he took a turn for the worse and his kidneys began to fail. The doctors indicated that further procedures might prolong his life shortly, but would lead to re-occurance in short order and probably...