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DPRK LAUNCH --overflying Akita Prefecture, Japan
japanese news ^

Posted on 04/04/2009 7:39:33 PM PDT by gaijin

getting details, breaking hard


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Japan; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: akita; bhoasia; bhonukes; dprk; missile; missilelaunch; nknukes; nkorea; northkorea; tm
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To: Texas Eagle
Pathetic. FOX has some business show on. CNN is covering the MLK assassination and Headline News is airing Showbiz Tonight.

If this were GWB, they would be wall-to-wall coverage, like before.....spent hours in BREAKING NEWS, slamming Pres Bush.

If there is no coverage...it did not happen. I feel like we are in some commie country with State run media.
281 posted on 04/04/2009 8:26:55 PM PDT by roses of sharon (Pray Hussein fails!)
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To: redk

Remembering that Charles wanted to be one of Camilla’s T’s,
Geraldo has done Prince Charles one better!


282 posted on 04/04/2009 8:27:05 PM PDT by True Republican Patriot (GOD BLESS AMERICA and Our Last Great President George W. Bush)
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To: Volunteer
I have to ask, did the Clinton era sale of technology allow the North Koreans to develop the guidance system of this missile?

Possibly, through Clinton's Chinagate dealings. But I don't know. See the 2nd and 3rd bold-typed paragraphs below...

"'We like your president. We want to see him reelected', former Chinese intelligence chief General Ji Shengde told Chinagate bagman Johnny Chung. Indeed, Chinese intelligence organized a massive covert operation aimed at tilting the 1996 election Clinton’s way."

The Idiot's Guide to Chinagate
By Richard Poe
May 26, 2003

CHINA WILL LIKELY replace the USA as world leader, said Bill Clinton in a recent Washington Post interview. It is just a matter of time. Clinton should know. He has personally done more to build China’s military strength than any man on earth.

Most Americans have heard of the so-called "Chinagate " scandal. Few understand its deadly import, however. Web sites such as "Chinagate for Dummies" and its companion "More Chinagate for Dummies" offer some assistance. Unfortunately, with a combined total of nearly 8,000 words, these two sites – like so many others of the genre – offer more detail than most of us "dummies" can absorb.

For that reason, in the 600 words left in this column, I will try to craft my own "Idiot’s Guide to Chinagate," dedicated to all those busy folks like you and me whose attention span tends to peter out after about 750 words. Here goes.

When Bill Clinton took office in 1993, China presented little threat to the United States. Chinese missiles "couldn’t hit the side of a barn," notes Timothy W. Maier of Insight magazine. Few could reach North America and those that made it would likely miss their targets.

Thanks to Bill Clinton, China can now hit any city in the USA, using state-of-the-art, solid-fueled missiles with dead-accurate, computerized guidance systems and multiple warheads.

China probably has suitcase nukes as well. These enable China to strike by proxy – equipping nuclear-armed terrorists to do their dirty work, while the Chinese play innocent. Some intelligence sources claim that China maintains secret stockpiles of chemical, biological and nuclear weapons on U.S. soil, for just such contingencies.

In 1997, Clinton allowed China to take over the Panama Canal. The Chinese company Hutchison Whampoa leased the ports of Cristobal and Balboa, on the east and west openings of the canal respectively, thus controlling access both ways. A public outcry stopped Clinton in 1998 from leasing California’s Long Beach Naval Yard to the Chinese firm COSCO. Even so, China can now strike U.S. targets easily from their bases in Panama, Vancouver and the Bahamas.

How did China catch up so fast? Easy. We sold them all the technology they needed – or handed it over for free. Neither neglect nor carelessness are to blame. Bill Clinton did it on purpose.

As a globalist, Clinton promotes "multipolarity" – the doctrine that no country (such as the USA) should be allowed to gain decisive advantage over others.

To this end, Clinton appointed anti-nuclear activist Hazel O’Leary to head the Department of Energy. O’Leary set to work "leveling the playing field," as she put it, by giving away our nuclear secrets. She declassified 11 million pages of data on U.S. nuclear weapons and loosened up security at weapons labs.

Federal investigators [Cox Report] later concluded that China made off with the "crown jewels" of our nuclear weapons research under Clinton’s open-door policy – probably including design specifications for suitcase nukes. Meanwhile, Clinton and his corporate cronies raked in millions.

In his book The China Threat, Washington Times correspondent Bill Gertz describes how the system worked. Defense contractors eager to sell technology to China poured millions of dollars into Clinton’s campaign. In return, Clinton called off the dogs.

Janet Reno and other counterintelligence officials stood down while Lockheed Martin, Hughes Electronics, Loral Space & Communications and other U.S. companies helped China modernize its nuclear strike force.

"We like your president. We want to see him reelected," former Chinese intelligence chief General Ji Shengde told Chinagate bagman Johnny Chung. Indeed, Chinese intelligence organized a massive covert operation aimed at tilting the 1996 election Clinton’s way.

Clinton’s top campaign contributors for 1992 were Chinese agents; his top donors in 1996 were U.S. defense contractors selling missile technology to China.

Clinton recieved funding directly from known or suspected Chinese intelligence agents, among them James and Mochtar Riady who own the Indonesian Lippo Group; John Huang; Charlie Trie; Ted Sioeng; Maria Hsia; Wang Jun and others.

Commerce Secretary Ron Brown served as Clinton’s front man in many Chinagate deals. When investigators began probing Brown’s Lippo Group and Chinagate connections, Brown died suddenly in a suspicious April 1996 plane crash.

Needless to say, China does not share Clinton’s enthusiasm for globalism or multipolarity. The Chinese look out for Number One.

"War [with the United States] is inevitable; we cannot avoid it," said Chinese Defense Minister General Chi Haotian in 2000. "The issue is that the Chinese armed forces must control the initiative in this war." Bill Clinton has given them a good start.

The Idiot's Guide to Chinagate:
http://www.richardpoe.com/column.cgi?story=125

or,
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/5/26/214938.shtml
(this version hasn't the necessary hyperlinks, but the above doesn't seem to be available any longer)
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Related Stories
Richard Poe, "Chinagate: The Third-Way Scandal" (June 3, 1999)
Christopher Ruddy, "Russia and China Prepare for War: Parts I - VIII," NewsMax.com (March 9 -18, 1999)

284 posted on 04/04/2009 8:27:17 PM PDT by ETL (ALL the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: Miss Didi

I think he means that in the same tone as, “Get out!” or “Shut up!” or “nun-uh, they did NOT go messin’ with MY man!”


285 posted on 04/04/2009 8:27:18 PM PDT by kimmie7 (Set phasers at: Sarcasm.)
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To: gaijin

NHK: North Korea missile did not place anything in orbit


286 posted on 04/04/2009 8:27:32 PM PDT by hugorand
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To: Empireoftheatom48
Plain and simple that site needs to be destroyed and if they come over the boarder then Nuc em!

The peanut farmer got a Nobel Peace Prize for removing our Marines with the backpack nukes from the 38th parallel. Their assignment was to detonate their weapons if the north attempted to breach the border with large ground assault. They're gone. The south will be overrun when the north sees fit to attack.

287 posted on 04/04/2009 8:27:41 PM PDT by Myrddin
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To: Cindy

Things just got little less safe ....never mind Obama will say some words....all is good in the world.....


288 posted on 04/04/2009 8:27:43 PM PDT by yield 2 the right
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To: Cindy

That was a Drudge headline, Cindy.


289 posted on 04/04/2009 8:27:46 PM PDT by Miss Didi ( "After all...tomorrow is another day." Scarlett O'Hara, Gone with the Wind)
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To: Graybeard58

I know what you mean—some I missed entirely, because I missed the thread about their passing.

We have to soldier on in their stead—we wouldn’t want to disappoint them.


290 posted on 04/04/2009 8:27:59 PM PDT by exit82 (The Obama Cabinet: There was more brainpower on Gilligan's Island.)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

Sad situation, isn’t it.


291 posted on 04/04/2009 8:28:14 PM PDT by kimmie7 (Phasers are set to "Sarcasm")
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To: spectre
He's lost it, truly lost it.

Geraldo? He never had it.

292 posted on 04/04/2009 8:28:19 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: HiTech RedNeck
Wonder if said “satellite” is a dirty bomb headed for US?

Unlikely. The Norks have achieved a fair success in managing to keep the missile in the air for more than 40 seconds (the record of their last major missile test) but they lack the accuracy and the technology to deliver any kind of destructive payload over U.S. territory. If they had a dirty bomb, it would be more to their advantage to smuggle it in to New York City utilizing one of their U.N. envoys' planes.
293 posted on 04/04/2009 8:28:21 PM PDT by mkjessup (You're either with our Constitution, or you are with TKU ("The Kenyan Usurper"). CHOOSE!!!)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

Brief summary?


294 posted on 04/04/2009 8:28:30 PM PDT by varina davis (Life is not a dress rehearsal)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

Good for that analyst!

I am very upset that there isn’t some statement from the White House on this! Zero is acting like this is no big deal, just a “yawner”.

Now we are unsafe physically, in addition to economically!


295 posted on 04/04/2009 8:28:36 PM PDT by jacquej
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To: All

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601080&sid=a4O4VCRXltXM&refer=asia

“North Korea Rocket Flew Over Japan, Government Says (Update1)”

“By Sachiko Sakamaki and Heejin Koo”

SNIPPET: “April 5 (Bloomberg) — North Korea launched a rocket today which overflew Japan on a trajectory into the Pacific Ocean, according to a statement from the Japanese Prime Minister’s Office. South Korea’s government also confirmed the launch.”


296 posted on 04/04/2009 8:28:52 PM PDT by Cindy
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To: conservativeinferno

Oh, but we can’t attack the sites. CNN explained that they are supported by China and that would make China mad.


297 posted on 04/04/2009 8:29:31 PM PDT by Winstons Julia
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To: kimmie7; Cindy

I know, it’s like—get out of here!


298 posted on 04/04/2009 8:29:36 PM PDT by Miss Didi ( "After all...tomorrow is another day." Scarlett O'Hara, Gone with the Wind)
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To: True Republican Patriot
Speaking of the Royals and the Obama’s, sounds like they didn't let Harry meet them. I can't imagine why. LoL
299 posted on 04/04/2009 8:29:47 PM PDT by redk
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To: ETL

Bump for later reading. Thanks for the reminder of a much forgotten and misunderstood era.


300 posted on 04/04/2009 8:29:51 PM PDT by myprecious
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