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ANNOUNCING THAT THE SATELLITE G.P.S. SYSTEM IS DESIGNED FOR COMMERCIAL, SCIENTIFIC, AND MILITARY PURPOSES.
In 2000 China launched it's first satellite (coincidentally one year prior to Nine-Eleven) and now orbits sixteen satellites.
Today China announced it has activated it's "Beidou" GPS system; by 2020 China will have launched at least thirty-five satellites.
Perhaps it's time to take the unfailing advice found in Chinese restaurant fortune cookies: "Learn to read and speak Chinese...."
Thursday, December 27, 2012
Tuesday, December 25, 2012
OBVIOUS IMPLICATIONS OF NUCLEAR IRAN, PAKISTAN, AND NORTH KOREA:
"TIC-TAC-TO (OR IS IT 'TICK-TOCK-TOW') -- THREE IN A ROW!"
Not quite there yet in drawing that connecting line from Northeast Asia (North Korea) through Central Asia (Pakistan) into Southwest Asia (Iran), China is already expanding a new game into the Pacific, claiming sovereignty over hosts of islands in all the various seas off China's coast and challenging South Korea, Japan, the Philippines, and the other South Seas nations.
China itself is already stockpiled with diverse nuclear armaments; so add to that the coming completion of China's expanded ring of nuclear military capability via it's client/proxy States.
Once China's limit was the Great Wall of China. In 1949 China invaded and occupied Tibet, thereby expanding a second great 'wall' of China to the Himalyas de facto. In China's eyes and more significantly in Chinese Law, Tibet is Chinese territory de juree.
It is not beyond reason to perceive that in the worldwide territorial game of "Go", there are now three great 'walls' of China: the Great Wall; the circle of mountains surrounding Siankiang in the north and Tibet in the west and south; and now the 'nuclear wall' comprising North Korea, Pakistan, and [imminently] Iran.
Let us not forget China's eyes in the sky, be they officially Chinese, nor those of contracted nations and their surrogates; need the appropriate biblical metaphor [and therefore solution] be spelled out?
Not quite there yet in drawing that connecting line from Northeast Asia (North Korea) through Central Asia (Pakistan) into Southwest Asia (Iran), China is already expanding a new game into the Pacific, claiming sovereignty over hosts of islands in all the various seas off China's coast and challenging South Korea, Japan, the Philippines, and the other South Seas nations.
China itself is already stockpiled with diverse nuclear armaments; so add to that the coming completion of China's expanded ring of nuclear military capability via it's client/proxy States.
Once China's limit was the Great Wall of China. In 1949 China invaded and occupied Tibet, thereby expanding a second great 'wall' of China to the Himalyas de facto. In China's eyes and more significantly in Chinese Law, Tibet is Chinese territory de juree.
It is not beyond reason to perceive that in the worldwide territorial game of "Go", there are now three great 'walls' of China: the Great Wall; the circle of mountains surrounding Siankiang in the north and Tibet in the west and south; and now the 'nuclear wall' comprising North Korea, Pakistan, and [imminently] Iran.
Let us not forget China's eyes in the sky, be they officially Chinese, nor those of contracted nations and their surrogates; need the appropriate biblical metaphor [and therefore solution] be spelled out?
Sunday, December 23, 2012
CAN WE PREDICT WHAT THE NEW EGYPT WILL LOOK LIKE, IF MORSI AND HIS NEW CONSTITUTION SURVIVE?
HOW DOES MORSI'S NEW CONSTITUTION FOR EGYPT COMPARE TO THAT OF TURKEY?
A cogent understanding of the significance of the new Egyptian Constitution and Government may be learned out by making a comparison to the Turkish Constitution and Government. The Turkish Government is by an Islamist party elected under a pre-existing secular Constitution. Despite Islamist leanings, Turkey is still a member nation of NATO, and still has relations with Israel (strained of course by the Turkish role in the Mavi Marmara Incident). A study of the new Egyptian Constitution in comparison and contrast to that of the Turkish Constitution may reveal the true meaning of the new Egyptian Constitution and, may make it possible to predict, whether or not the Muslim Brotherhood has become a kinder, gentler, more democratic influence in Egypt and in the region, or, whether on not the Muslim Brotherhood is without doubt merely the Hamas of Egypt.
A cogent understanding of the significance of the new Egyptian Constitution and Government may be learned out by making a comparison to the Turkish Constitution and Government. The Turkish Government is by an Islamist party elected under a pre-existing secular Constitution. Despite Islamist leanings, Turkey is still a member nation of NATO, and still has relations with Israel (strained of course by the Turkish role in the Mavi Marmara Incident). A study of the new Egyptian Constitution in comparison and contrast to that of the Turkish Constitution may reveal the true meaning of the new Egyptian Constitution and, may make it possible to predict, whether or not the Muslim Brotherhood has become a kinder, gentler, more democratic influence in Egypt and in the region, or, whether on not the Muslim Brotherhood is without doubt merely the Hamas of Egypt.
Thursday, December 20, 2012
REVIEWING THE PROPOSITION THAT THE U.N. SHOULD GRANT NON-MEMBER OBSERVER STATUS TO TIBET...
SUCH A PROPOSITION MAY BE SUPERFICIALLY APPEALING BUT SUBSTANTIALLY WEAK.
The idea of non-member observer status at the UN for Tibet may or may not be uniquely mine, and I do not know, if it has ever been a goal of the Dalai Lama; I do know that the Dalai Lama has publicly expressed his wish that China allow Tibet to function as an autonomous region of China.
It may be that non-member observer status at the UN, rather than furthering the cause of Tibet against Chinese Occupation, would instead put the lid on both Tibetan autonomy and independence. Any such internationally legal voice gained by the Dalai Lama under the aegis of a theoretically independent Tibet having non-member observer status could be a voice less substantial than the wind, having no territorial hegemony.
The Dalai Lama may have chosen the harder, longer, more painful, more difficult, ultimately necessary road -- the road of the Tibetan Buddhist, may it lead to the reconstitution of Tibet.
The idea of non-member observer status at the UN for Tibet may or may not be uniquely mine, and I do not know, if it has ever been a goal of the Dalai Lama; I do know that the Dalai Lama has publicly expressed his wish that China allow Tibet to function as an autonomous region of China.
It may be that non-member observer status at the UN, rather than furthering the cause of Tibet against Chinese Occupation, would instead put the lid on both Tibetan autonomy and independence. Any such internationally legal voice gained by the Dalai Lama under the aegis of a theoretically independent Tibet having non-member observer status could be a voice less substantial than the wind, having no territorial hegemony.
The Dalai Lama may have chosen the harder, longer, more painful, more difficult, ultimately necessary road -- the road of the Tibetan Buddhist, may it lead to the reconstitution of Tibet.
IN RECONSIDERATION OF THE MEANING AND IMPLICATIONS OF NON-MEMBER OBSERVER STATUS AT THE U.N. FOR THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY...
A STATE OF PALESTINE, OR, A THEOCRATIC STATE OF EAST JERUSALEM?
Given the unlikelihood that the budding Third Intifada will lead to lasting unification of the Palestinian Authority and Hamas, and given that the inevitable result must be either a temporary or permanent "Pax Yisrael" in both Gaza and Judea-Samaria, a State of Palestine under the Palestinian Authority is unlikely. And Hamas is not [yet] recognized by the UNGA with respect to the non-member observer status of the Palestinian Authority.
There is increasing momentum for the PA and Hamas to come together in a Third Intifada, and talk that the military cooperation between the PA and Israel will soon be ended unilaterally by the PA, so the future therefore is quite tenuous. It is not impossible to imagine that a Third Intifada will mean that both Hamas and the PA will be brought down once again by Israel, and that Israel will exert even stronger and more justifiable hegemony over Gaza and Judea-Samaria. Nor is it impossible to imagine that Jordan and Egypt will either step in or be called upon to incorporate the "West Bank" (Judea-Samaria) and Gaza into their respective contiguous nations ("Back to the Future", so to speak).
So what then of East Jerusalem and the Haram-es-Sharif? In the context of the present dubious equivalence between the status of the PA and that of The Holy See (The Vatican), as both the PA and The Holy See are legally of the same UN non-member observer status, the precedence of The Vatican as a theocratic State implies the possibility that there could be a transformation [from the presently intended move to create a fully-fledged UN Member State of Palestine] to instead create a theocratic State of East Jerusalem under the political and religious authority of the Waqf and the Mufti of Jerusalem. This is a logical implication for the future of East Jerusalem that cannot be ignored.
ANTICIPATING THE ARMED, DEADLY ANTHILL AND CRYPT OF A "HOLY CITY OF EAST JERUSALEM" (12/23/2012)
The Jihadist habit of tunneling is well known throughout the world. Whether this tunneling be by Al-Quaeda in Afghanistan and in Pakistan or, by Hamas, the PLO, and Hezbollah in Gaza, Israel, and Lebanon, the hazard is relentless. Just imagine the Jihadist catacombs that already lace the Temple Mount and that may snake throughout East Jerusalem and throughout the entire City of Jerusalem.
"Do you know? Don't you wonder? What's going on... down under you???" (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
Given the unlikelihood that the budding Third Intifada will lead to lasting unification of the Palestinian Authority and Hamas, and given that the inevitable result must be either a temporary or permanent "Pax Yisrael" in both Gaza and Judea-Samaria, a State of Palestine under the Palestinian Authority is unlikely. And Hamas is not [yet] recognized by the UNGA with respect to the non-member observer status of the Palestinian Authority.
There is increasing momentum for the PA and Hamas to come together in a Third Intifada, and talk that the military cooperation between the PA and Israel will soon be ended unilaterally by the PA, so the future therefore is quite tenuous. It is not impossible to imagine that a Third Intifada will mean that both Hamas and the PA will be brought down once again by Israel, and that Israel will exert even stronger and more justifiable hegemony over Gaza and Judea-Samaria. Nor is it impossible to imagine that Jordan and Egypt will either step in or be called upon to incorporate the "West Bank" (Judea-Samaria) and Gaza into their respective contiguous nations ("Back to the Future", so to speak).
So what then of East Jerusalem and the Haram-es-Sharif? In the context of the present dubious equivalence between the status of the PA and that of The Holy See (The Vatican), as both the PA and The Holy See are legally of the same UN non-member observer status, the precedence of The Vatican as a theocratic State implies the possibility that there could be a transformation [from the presently intended move to create a fully-fledged UN Member State of Palestine] to instead create a theocratic State of East Jerusalem under the political and religious authority of the Waqf and the Mufti of Jerusalem. This is a logical implication for the future of East Jerusalem that cannot be ignored.
ANTICIPATING THE ARMED, DEADLY ANTHILL AND CRYPT OF A "HOLY CITY OF EAST JERUSALEM" (12/23/2012)
The Jihadist habit of tunneling is well known throughout the world. Whether this tunneling be by Al-Quaeda in Afghanistan and in Pakistan or, by Hamas, the PLO, and Hezbollah in Gaza, Israel, and Lebanon, the hazard is relentless. Just imagine the Jihadist catacombs that already lace the Temple Mount and that may snake throughout East Jerusalem and throughout the entire City of Jerusalem.
"Do you know? Don't you wonder? What's going on... down under you???" (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
(1) ANSWERING FAYYAD'S CALL FOR A BOYCOTT OF ALL THINGS ISRAEL, AND (2) CHALLENGING U.N.G.A. RECOGNITION OF A PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY LED "OBSERVER STATE OF PALESTINE."
MAKING THE BEST OF THESE TWO WRONGS AGAINST ISRAEL AND THE FREE WORLD.
Israel has done much to support Abbu Mazzan (Mahmoud Abbas), Salam Fayyad, Hanan Asrawi, and the Palestinian Authority they lead. Support has included political support, military support, and financial support. Yet in less than thirty days the Palestinian Authority has twice spit on the Jewish hands lifting them up.
(1) THE BOYCOTT INVOCATION
Israeli Premier Netanyahu should hold an international press conference and respond to Salam Fayyad's call for a boycott of all things Israel.
PM Netanyahu's response should be firm, yet compassionate, and should be designed to transform the invocative and provocative negative of the Arab-proposed boycott of Israel into a positive result. PM Netanyahu should put forth a joyful, compelling, constructive call for the world to go out of it's way to visit the Holy Land this holiday season. Customarily, at this time of year, Jews and Arabs host throngs of tourists on pilgrimage tours to the Holy Land. There is no better way to transcend the disturbed political airs than to remember that every day on the ground, ordinary Arabs and Israelis are remarkably hospitable and needing of the economic blessings of ordinary tourism and commerce.
Now, the Arab call for a boycott of all things Israel may or may not have been planned by the Arabs prior to and independently of Israel's response to UNGA recognition of an "Observer State of Palestine" [Israel froze $400-million NIS of PA taxes (collateral for money owed by the PA to Israel for utility services already provided) and commenced the building of houses for Israelis on land the Arabs claim is theirs].
The Israeli actions are justified and overdue and are even relatively mute in the face of Arab behavior; yet, Israel must be wary of the obsequious nature of Arab provocation, such as this call for a boycott of all things Israel. Just as the Arabs establish their missile sites in their own olive groves in order to publicly decry olive grove destruction by Israel, when in self-defense Israel attacks these missile sites; just as the Arabs establish their terror cells among their own civilians in order to decry the harm to civilians at the hand of Israel, when Israel attacks these terror cells in self-defense; so too the Arabs find all manner of public propaganda ploys to distort reality and focus negative attention on Israel; this call for a boycott of all things Israel may be such a ploy.
Therefore, while remaining firm where necessary, Israel may yet be warm, openhearted, and positive by inviting the world to come to the Holy Land. PM Netanyahu may remind the world that the best way for the world to practice peacemaking in the Holy Land is to support the economy of the Holy Land by coming to the Holy Land and by enjoying all that the Holy Land offers in this season of the message of peace.
Much of the hospitality hosted in the Holy Land is hosted by Arabs, not only Jews. Such an invitation to the world by PM Netanyahu, such an invitation to kindness inclusive of the average Arab struggling to make a living from day to day, may do much to diffuse animosity towards both Israel and PM Netanyahu, be that animosity local or out in the larger world.
(2) AN OBSERVER STATE OF PALESTINE
For the third time in recent years the UNGA has ramped up the prestige and legitimacy of Arab terrorism. Twice it has empowered the PA with respect to the UN History and Antiquites Authority; and now the UN has elevated the PA into the status of a recognized Observer State.
Setting aside Arab theft of the name "Palestine" from our Jewish Nation -- (though it is a name of humiliation, "Palestine" is a second name for the State of Israel, a name of occupation, forced by Ancient Rome upon Ancient Israel) -- by what insanity and by what precedent has the UNGA granted Observer State status to the PA?
There is no unified political authority for all of the Palestinian Arabs (e.g. it is Hamas that has the popular, financial, and authoritative rule in Gaza); so, on what basis may the UNGA represent, even to it's own body, that the PA is the legitimate authority for any proposed Arab State of Palestine?
No less important is this precedent: the only preceding Observer State at the UN is the theocratic State known as The Holy See (i.e. The Vatican). Based on such a theocratic precedent, logic implies that the UNGA would more likely grant Observer Status to Hamas, not to the PA, as theocratic leadership is an Hamas hallmark (not that terrorist Hamas is any more worthy of a State than the PA). Is it the intent of the UNGA to elevate Abbas, Fayyad, and Asrawi to the stature of the Pope?
And then there is the glaring omission at the UNGA -- that Tibet does not have recognition as an Observer State, nor does the Dali Lama have the appropriate international theocratic respect he deserves.
Legally, it should be clear and obvious that, by precedent of The Vatican, Tibet should be granted status as an Observer State. The Dalai Lama, though in exile, deserves equivalent theocratic status at the UN to that of the Pope (despite the existence of a figurehead placed in that role by Tibet's occuppier, China). Tibet has suffered forced occupation by China for more than half a century; yet, the Tibetan response to Chinese occupation has honorably and enduringly been non-violent in keeping with the non-violent philosophy of Tibetan Buddhism.
Were the UNGA behaving honestly, it would not give the PA a moment of credibility, and would shift it's focus towards the needs of the People of Tibet.
IN SUMMARY:
Israel's response to Fayyad's boycott provocation should be a compassionate, positive, inviting call for the world to support the economy of Holy Land by visiting both Jewish and Arab hosted sites in the Holy Land.
Israel's response to UNGA recognition of the OSP (Observer State of Palestine) should be to represent to the ICJ (International Court of Justice) in Brussels that there is neither basis nor precedent for the UNGA to recognize an OSP and that the UNGA vote therefore must needs be struck down by the ICJ.
Israel has done much to support Abbu Mazzan (Mahmoud Abbas), Salam Fayyad, Hanan Asrawi, and the Palestinian Authority they lead. Support has included political support, military support, and financial support. Yet in less than thirty days the Palestinian Authority has twice spit on the Jewish hands lifting them up.
(1) THE BOYCOTT INVOCATION
Israeli Premier Netanyahu should hold an international press conference and respond to Salam Fayyad's call for a boycott of all things Israel.
PM Netanyahu's response should be firm, yet compassionate, and should be designed to transform the invocative and provocative negative of the Arab-proposed boycott of Israel into a positive result. PM Netanyahu should put forth a joyful, compelling, constructive call for the world to go out of it's way to visit the Holy Land this holiday season. Customarily, at this time of year, Jews and Arabs host throngs of tourists on pilgrimage tours to the Holy Land. There is no better way to transcend the disturbed political airs than to remember that every day on the ground, ordinary Arabs and Israelis are remarkably hospitable and needing of the economic blessings of ordinary tourism and commerce.
Now, the Arab call for a boycott of all things Israel may or may not have been planned by the Arabs prior to and independently of Israel's response to UNGA recognition of an "Observer State of Palestine" [Israel froze $400-million NIS of PA taxes (collateral for money owed by the PA to Israel for utility services already provided) and commenced the building of houses for Israelis on land the Arabs claim is theirs].
The Israeli actions are justified and overdue and are even relatively mute in the face of Arab behavior; yet, Israel must be wary of the obsequious nature of Arab provocation, such as this call for a boycott of all things Israel. Just as the Arabs establish their missile sites in their own olive groves in order to publicly decry olive grove destruction by Israel, when in self-defense Israel attacks these missile sites; just as the Arabs establish their terror cells among their own civilians in order to decry the harm to civilians at the hand of Israel, when Israel attacks these terror cells in self-defense; so too the Arabs find all manner of public propaganda ploys to distort reality and focus negative attention on Israel; this call for a boycott of all things Israel may be such a ploy.
Therefore, while remaining firm where necessary, Israel may yet be warm, openhearted, and positive by inviting the world to come to the Holy Land. PM Netanyahu may remind the world that the best way for the world to practice peacemaking in the Holy Land is to support the economy of the Holy Land by coming to the Holy Land and by enjoying all that the Holy Land offers in this season of the message of peace.
Much of the hospitality hosted in the Holy Land is hosted by Arabs, not only Jews. Such an invitation to the world by PM Netanyahu, such an invitation to kindness inclusive of the average Arab struggling to make a living from day to day, may do much to diffuse animosity towards both Israel and PM Netanyahu, be that animosity local or out in the larger world.
(2) AN OBSERVER STATE OF PALESTINE
For the third time in recent years the UNGA has ramped up the prestige and legitimacy of Arab terrorism. Twice it has empowered the PA with respect to the UN History and Antiquites Authority; and now the UN has elevated the PA into the status of a recognized Observer State.
Setting aside Arab theft of the name "Palestine" from our Jewish Nation -- (though it is a name of humiliation, "Palestine" is a second name for the State of Israel, a name of occupation, forced by Ancient Rome upon Ancient Israel) -- by what insanity and by what precedent has the UNGA granted Observer State status to the PA?
There is no unified political authority for all of the Palestinian Arabs (e.g. it is Hamas that has the popular, financial, and authoritative rule in Gaza); so, on what basis may the UNGA represent, even to it's own body, that the PA is the legitimate authority for any proposed Arab State of Palestine?
No less important is this precedent: the only preceding Observer State at the UN is the theocratic State known as The Holy See (i.e. The Vatican). Based on such a theocratic precedent, logic implies that the UNGA would more likely grant Observer Status to Hamas, not to the PA, as theocratic leadership is an Hamas hallmark (not that terrorist Hamas is any more worthy of a State than the PA). Is it the intent of the UNGA to elevate Abbas, Fayyad, and Asrawi to the stature of the Pope?
And then there is the glaring omission at the UNGA -- that Tibet does not have recognition as an Observer State, nor does the Dali Lama have the appropriate international theocratic respect he deserves.
Legally, it should be clear and obvious that, by precedent of The Vatican, Tibet should be granted status as an Observer State. The Dalai Lama, though in exile, deserves equivalent theocratic status at the UN to that of the Pope (despite the existence of a figurehead placed in that role by Tibet's occuppier, China). Tibet has suffered forced occupation by China for more than half a century; yet, the Tibetan response to Chinese occupation has honorably and enduringly been non-violent in keeping with the non-violent philosophy of Tibetan Buddhism.
Were the UNGA behaving honestly, it would not give the PA a moment of credibility, and would shift it's focus towards the needs of the People of Tibet.
IN SUMMARY:
Israel's response to Fayyad's boycott provocation should be a compassionate, positive, inviting call for the world to support the economy of Holy Land by visiting both Jewish and Arab hosted sites in the Holy Land.
Israel's response to UNGA recognition of the OSP (Observer State of Palestine) should be to represent to the ICJ (International Court of Justice) in Brussels that there is neither basis nor precedent for the UNGA to recognize an OSP and that the UNGA vote therefore must needs be struck down by the ICJ.
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