The manner the Chinese do it is genius. They do not use agencies like we do. They do not have the FBI, CIA or other securities that are carrying out this operations; they use random kids! They let teens and young adults hack away the CIA on their own and then let them sell the secrets to the Chinese government! That I think is absolutely genius, in an evil sort of way!

Evil, because this is a method the Chinese can use to get unfair trade advantages with us. They do not need to spend billions of dollars worth of their taxpayers money to get the technology like we do. That jeopardizes our economy.

They can also hack and receive military secrets, something which is of a national security interest. While China may have a much smaller military budget, her areas of concern are small as compared to the US. Why do they need that much if they are only defending their borders? Why are they so concerned about our ships in the South China Sea, which is international waters? That is something that we Americans should view as a threat.

So what should we do about it? Well, we have thought about this and we came up with something very simple : Lets copy what they do to us, improve on it, and give them back a taste of their own medicine!Lets use our teenagers and young adults and spy on them. Not only that, we can send them some Trojans as presents too!

Think about it. We can take all the good things from the Chinese. Lets know where their military is located. Lets find out what they think about us in the China Communist Party. It is cheap and effective. How do we know? The Chinese are doing it! Lets give them back their own medicine for a change.

It is not like people have not spied on China before. There was this guy who spied for Taiwan, before their idiot of a President Chen Shui-bian ( now a convict in prison) opened his mouth and the spy got exposed. If the Taiwanese can do it, so can we!

I think nobody would follow this, even if they may agree with me. This is because China holds so much of the US debt and we are still taking lots of debt money from them. We still need China’s help with North Korea, Sudan, and Iran amongst other countries. E.g. If China stops buying Iranian oil, Iran would go bankrupt in a week!

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Oh my God, he first bowed before the Saudi royalty. Wait he was Muslim right. But his color is a bit off… Now we know why, he is half Japanese! He is not Kenyan, British, Cuban, Vietnamese, Communist, Hawaiian or other things like the other birther theories…now this is the real birther truth.

Japan never liked losing World War 2 so they wanted to take revenge. So they acted like best friends with the United States till they can send one of their spies over. The spy would run the country, but for it to run there, he needed to be born. They got their most Caucasian looking person they know and named them Dunham. Japan always had fertility problems, so they went to seek the help of the Saudis who could marry four wives. Wham bham, President Obama came along and he would at the right time give our country to the Japanese. Somebody tell Orly Taitz now.. Arrrggghhhh!

Who knows if he is just bowing, he could be doing some crotch action on the Emperors man. Maybe, he has a fetish for Royal male crotches. May be that is why Queen Elizabeth did not get the full bow. (Gasp!) Run Prince (of Wales) Charles, run! Run behind First Lady Michelle Obama’s arms. It must be that smile that they cannot resist I tell you. Its either that or his huge ears. We know nobody find a person’s intelligence a turn on factor… Arrrggghhh!

Oh man, we got to get to tell the American Queen, I mean Oprah! Only she can fix this man. We all know that he should be a good American and only bow to Oprah! She is the Queen and the benevolent ruler of our minds, unless you are part of a cult run by the charismatic, slim, hunk, truth telling, self proclaimed “rodeo” clown… Glenn Beck! Arrrggghhh!

Okay, snapping back to reality right now, I think that America should be embarrassed by one of the President’s actions. He could not pronounce Burmese freedom fighting queen, the elected Prime Minister of Burma, Aung Sang Suu Kyi. That is an embarrassment in all seriousness. It showed his lack of care about Burma till then.

But you know the media, they would never pick this kind of thing up. They would rather see how the President greeted his hosts. They would rather compare how he bowed with other world leaders and previous Presidents, but they would keep mum about a brave lady that has spent so much of her life fighting for human rights and democracy, a tenet of our country..

I really do not know who is a more sad case, the media, or the President for not pronouncing her name correctly…

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So what are they saying exactly? Before we fight the enemy, aka the Taliban or Al Qaeda, we have got to get supplies to our troops. These supplies cone from mainland USA and all over the world and it goes to the Bagram. Airfield. From there it needs to go to our military bases.

Along the way it is risky and the Taliban would wait for planes to come for them to launch attacks. This endangers the supply route. There are many methods to solve these problems and the method used is to have an agency in Afghanistan that would be in-charge of safety. This agency would then pay off the Taliban to ensure that the route is safe. Hence the US taxpayers funding the Taliban.

Look, these people have never been in the military before. I may not have been an officer in the Army and my rank may be low, but I definitely have enough faith in the commanders of this entire operation. They usually have these things covered. We have done them in training. This must be the best operation.

If it is really costs that much, don’t you think that they would just fly them to the base? They can load them up to choppers and fly them to the base. They could also secure the road or more likely travel in the convoy. On top of that they can also have dud convoys to spend the Taliban’s ammunition and give their positions away.

There are many other alternatives. But more some reason the US Military commanders chose this method of paying off the Taliban. Why? In my humble opinion, I think it must be because it is much cheaper this way. We can send more resources to fight the Taliban than allow the Taliban to have them.

My theory is backed by the fact that tens of millions of dollars of equipment travels each time from Bagram Airfield to the bases while we pay the agency that is in charge of the security $6 million a year. That sounds like a good deal to me.

There would be some conspiracy head hunters out there that would want to place the decision for this on the military industrial complex. My answer to them is that those guys would get their hands in this any method we choose to take. They are everywhere. It is a fact.

This is also a classic example of how the wingnut media distorts news to get their message across. In this case, it is MSNBC that is doing this. They are the propagating all this bull crap to get the far left message of “Get out now” ingrained in people’s heads. And they are doing it under the fallacy of it being a news network!

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Suu Kyi and Campbell posed for photographs but did not answer reporters’ questions.

Campbell, Washington’s top official for East and Southeast Asia, met earlier on Wednesday with Myanmar Prime Minister Thein Sein.

The State Department said on Tuesday the visit was a “fact-finding mission.”

The regime is keen to see Western sanctions lifted and has allowed Suu Kyi to raise the issue with diplomats in meetings that the junta normally forbids.

The United States announced in September it would pursue deeper engagement to try to spur democratic reforms in Myanmar and is pressing for free, fair and inclusive elections next year.

Campbell was due to meet representatives of ethnic groups and Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) party, which was the clear winner the last time polls were held in 1990.

The military, which has ruled since a 1962 coup, refused to recognize the NLD victory.

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Here is what he said during the interview:

“ Last November in Afghanistan, a Taliban commander kidnapped myself,an Afghan journalist I was working with and our Afghan driver. I was in Afghanistan to write a book about the country, and was about to get an interview with the Taliban commander in Logar province, an hour South East of the capital Kabul. The commander who calls himself Abu Tayeb,invited us to the interview. Instead of treating guests with honor, as in Afghan tradition, he kidnapped us and demanded a release of prisoners from Guantanamo Bay and up to $25000000 in ransom…”

Not so fiction is it now right? Here are other incidents where prisoners were demanded to be released as part of ransom.:

Israel release prisoners in exchange for mere knowledge that one of their soldiers is alive. – October 2009.

Robert Fowler, Canadian diplomat kidnapped with another Canadian – Al Qaeda’s prisoners were swapped in Mali and Niger for their release. – May 2009

Swat Taliban demanded Pakistan release prisoners. Pakistan did. – February 2009.

Maoist rebels in India kidnap a police officer; demanding release of all female prisoners demanding release of all their female soldiers. – October 2009

FOX News journalists Steve Centanni and Olaf Wiig being kidnapped with demands for Arab prisoners to be released in US jails – August 2006

There are tons of examples that history can provide us with. There are also many stories that go unreported in our Western press agencies or simply not a matter of urgency for our press.

That is why, I feel that it is a very urgent matter to close Guantanamo Bay as soon as possible. It would be a matter of “when” and not “if” a mass kidnapping is to take place to exchange terrorists for innocent human lives; and in that scenario, people are going to die. What are we going to do then? Release the prisoners or let innocent people die?

We have got to release the “innocent” ones and hang the guilty ones, be it of any crime related to terror. Why in the blue hell is Abu Zubaydah still alive? Why hasn’t he paid for his crimes with his life? The reason the “innocent” are in quotation marks is because many of them are not so innocent after spending years in Gitmo with hard core terrorists like Abu Zubayda..

Please stop with the excuse of intelligence gathering. What do you think you can get from Abu Zubayah now that you would not have gotten a year into his prison term? At most interrogation takes months, not years! And investigation can get intelligence rather than Guantanamo Bay.

I do hope that readers get my point across in the fact that we need to either hang or release most of the detainees in Guantanamo Bay. Please never hesitate to place your thoughts in the comment box below.

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To give you some idea of how bad the situation is in Japan is, the Japanese economy has an annualized contraction that is about 8 times more than the Eurozone. Furthermore the Eurozone already have economies that need bailout from the IMF. It is nearly twice as badly affected as the US. This is the deepest recession since the Second World War! Prime Minister Taro Aso put it in the most blunt way possible :“The economy is worsening.”

To add to all this woes, Toyota, the world’s largest car maker has asked help from the Japanese government in the form of a loan. They have joined their domestic rivals in that direction. Toyota expects to cut production by half this year. That is one huge drop.

Bloomberg also reports that real estate giant Pacific Holdings Company has also filed for bankruptcy this week. They had $1.7 billion worth of liabilities! Just a few years ago this was a company that would have been seen as one of the safest investments around.

The reason why Japan is in one of the deepest recessions in the world is because it is a very export driven economy. The reason the economy over there is in such a drag is because export figures are tremendously bad. For example, year on year Japan’s halved in January. Halved!

This in fact should be a lesson to the Japanese and the rest of the world in the future. One cannot every depend exclusively on exports for growth. When a nation exports, it is partly affected by the state of the importing country. If its entire economy is based on exports, then the entire economy is in the hands of the importing countries.

Right now, there are no buyers of Japanese goods in the EU and the US. Japan is entirely dependent on the EU and the US to prop up or else whatever the Japanese companies do would be in vain. This is something that Prime Minister Aso would never mention to his citizens as it would be political suicide to do so.

To a certain extent however, the whole world’s economies actually hinges on a US recovery. It is just how much dependence there is on an individual country on the US. That is the reason why President Obama is right now one of the most important US Presidents in history. What he does can make or break the global economy.

This is very similar to the position that President Roosevelt was in in the 1920s. He turned out to be one of the best Presidents that the US ever produced and now the world need President Obama to do the same. Thank God though that President Bush was not in charge now.

Another aspect to look at this is that of China. China is even more export orientated than Japan. China supplies is the biggest exporter in the world and yet does not seem to be affected much. It is still affected and would be facing deflation soon. But its currency manipulation of the US dollar is the single biggest factor that she is still growing albeit no more having double digit growth … for now at least!

The other country that should also learn a lesson from this is Russia. Russia is less of an export based economy but more of a raw material based one. It has vast amount of natural resources and her entire economy hinges on that. For example, if Europe wants to have energy from oil, gas or coal, they get it from Russia. They want nuclear power, they get Uranium from Russia, and the same for solar panels.

Should the element of natural resource collapse, Russia is in trouble as she does not have a strong banking sector or retail sector to fall back on. Russia has a lot of billionaires, but her people are still has only 5% of the consumer spending capacity of the US. This is long term would afftect Russia very badly.

Japan and the rest of the world though, I believe would see an end to this crisis faster than many people expect. I do expect to see definite growth early in 2010 in the US. From there, I think that the other economies around the world would pick up around the second half of 2010 with the Eurozone, Brazil, Russia and China leading the way.

It may take many years to be where we were 2 years ago, but I believe that we would be there soon.

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Organizers intend the four-day march to come to a sit-in in front of the parliament in Islamabad, on Monday. The group, numbering from 300 to 500, will join thousands of other demonstrators along the way and are calling it the “Long March.” named after Mao Zedong’s long march to beat the Kuomintang in 1927.

The authorities has replied by banning political gatherings in Punjab and Sindh. They says the march is aimed at destabilising the country and they fear the bloodshed that could occur as a result of these protests. They have already arrested at least 250 opposition activists, though some sources claim that the figure is as high as 420.

These people are all tied to the Sharif Brothers. Nawaz Sharif was banned by the Pakistani Supreme Court from holding public office due to charges laid on him by President Musharraf. His brother, Shahbaz Sharif has also been removed from his post as governor of Punjab.

The situation in Pakistan seem to be getting worse and worse every other day. This seems to be heading for the political tensions that Pakistan has occasionally that would lead ultimately to a coup by the Pakistani army.

This is also coming at the worst possible time for the whole world. Pakistan is a key player in the stabilization of neighboring Afghanistan. Should it fail as a state, there is no chance of Afghanistan succeeding as one.

There is also a shared threat of the Taliban that these two countries share. The Pakistani government has actually decided to talk to the Taliban and are on the verge of ceding the Swat Valley to them. Isn’t it sad that the Pakistani Government has decided to talk with an extremist element like the Taliban but would not negotiate with one another?!

I think there is a crisis in priority for the Pakistanis here. Pakistanis have always feared the threat coming from the East with regard to India. They have never considered Afghanistan, China or Iran being a threat to them at all. The PPP and the PML-N have always considered the biggest political threat to them is each other, not am extremist government run by the Lashkar e- Toiba, the Taliban or even Al Qaeda.

This is making elements ripe for a coup to take place. The Pakistani Army would never tolerate Pakistan being as unstable as it is and it would be a matter of time for a coup to take place should this tensions continue. I am not making these things up, one just have to look into the history books to know this.

This would undo a lot of what the West, particularly the Americans who have been pushing for the Pakistan to be a Democratic state. They had hoped that democracy would help bring about a change in Pakistan and help it grow economically and politically to combat the radical elements that originated within it.

The question now is what should the world do? Should it not do anything, there is a higher chance than not for Pakistan to fall into the hands of the Taliban or other extremists. The Americans and the West cannot do much to help in this situation as this would be a selling point of the Taliban to the people and could be counter productive. Iran is Shi’ite and Sunni Pakistan would not appreciate their help. India is something like the most hated enemy of Pakistan even though ties have warmed considerably in recent times and Afghanistan and the other central Asian states are too weak to do anything.

The country that has the most leverage in this matter would be China. China is not a Western power and is the country that helped build most of Pakistani infrastructure up. China was always used to counter-balance India’s friendship with the Soviet Union and now Russia. A lot of business in Pakistan happens because of China. China can put a voice to this and help stop the rise of militants over there.

There is also something in it for China. The same extremist mentality that gave birth to the Taliban also demands for a separate country in the Chinese state of Xinjiang. The Chinese would therefore have an interest in this and would not sit aside and watch as what it did in Sudan.

I really hope that all the fears are just that – fears. It would really be sad to see Pakistan collapse like that.