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Friends, the following brief article was released by Al Jazeera today. It doesn’t seem like much of scoop but if you think about its implications, you might have grounds for being worried.
“China has announced it will increase its defence budget by 12.7 per cent this year.
Officials in Beijing said on Friday, however, that a return to double-digit military growth is not a threat to other countries, despite concern worldwide.
The increase would put China’s 2011 military budget at almost $92bn, according to Li Zhaoxing, spokesman of the national parliament and a former foreign minister.”
Of course, you can’t blame China for increasing its defense spending not given the activities of the U.S. and its greedy Allies right across the world and in China’s region.
And besides, 92 billion dollars is chicken feed compared with the trillions of dollars that America spends on defense (or is it on imperialism?), more than the rest of the world combined!
And when China looks at what the U.S. is doing and trying to do in the Middle East regarding control of oil, it must surely be alarmed because if it can’t get oil then its growth will be stifled, something that the U.S. would welcome.
So the arms race that I spoke about in the PEACE charter is well underway and is likely to escalate infinitely which is why our Movement is so important.
If PEACE could grow big enough, we might provide a circuit breaker in this military madness which can only lead to war, nuclear war. Growth in our Movement in these early stages is essential otherwise we’ll wither and die.
If we can get a foothold on the Internet, then PEACE might take off. To do that, we’ll need at least a hundred members. The following pointers could help.
- Could I ask that all existing members sort out friends, work mates or relatives who might want to join. Of course we don’t want just names, we want dedicated supporters who see the importance of our Peace Movement.
- Could I ask that when you comment on other blogs you leave a plug for PEACE and a link to Dangerous Creation so that people can find out about us and the joining details.
- Could I ask that members hand out copies of the Charter to carefully selected people, copies that contain the address of Dangerous Creation. The Charter on its own will be of no help, kind of like having a canoe but no paddle.
- Do you know of other blogs that you support that might be willing to support us with a link? Would you approach them or let me know and I’ll give it a try?
Do you have an idea how we can expand our membership? Please let me know if you do. On Monday, I’m going to investigate having a few T-Shirts made with the Logo on it. I’ll provide a photo if I succeed.
Friends and Members, the news about China shows just how important PEACE is. Your help is needed if we are to stop our world going up in smoke!
Let’s set the Membership Target for March at 100. Will you help me to achieve it?
The figure in the new US budget proposal that nobody in power wants you to notice is $1.2 trillion for national security?
[ http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/03/01/opinion/main20038078.shtml ]
Sure is “chicken-feed” compared to the “good ‘ole US of A.”
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David G Reply:
March 5th, 2011 at 10:20 am
Yeah, Scott. The U.S. tries to be the biggest and the best in everything. It’s the world’s biggest terrorist, the world’s biggest killer, the world’s biggest hypocrite, etc.
Thanks for calling by and leaving a link. Did you read the Sidebar about PEACE?
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nowayout Reply:
March 5th, 2011 at 10:35 am
You should send a note to the Chinese government, they might want to join PEACE. Imagine how many t-shirts you could afford if they did.
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David G Reply:
March 5th, 2011 at 10:46 am
There would be far more likelihood of China joining PEACE than America, nowayout. Its history over thousands of years clearly demonstrates that.
nowayout Reply:
March 5th, 2011 at 10:52 am
It is a flawed idea. I suspect it would just open the door a little further for them to do the same things, and for the same reasons, as the US. Forget I mentioned it.
It’s an interesting area of discussion, nowayout. Civilizations have various behavioural characteristics. Some nations are peaceful; some love war and violence. Germany and America are like twins!
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nowayout Reply:
March 5th, 2011 at 11:22 am
Perhaps you should write an article about it. Maybe a series of articles. Include as many of the current major players as you can.
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Let’s not forget how evil a government we’re talking about with China, David. Their human rights abuse record is nearly unparallelled. Euthanizing the old, forcing its citizens to work in sweatshops while stripping the country’s rich history away to make it more accomodating to their new Americanesque capitalist dictatorship system, imprisoning people for bearing female children… From the perspective of a citizen, China is one of the few developed countries on Earth that actually makes being an American seem favorable.
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David G Reply:
March 5th, 2011 at 2:09 pm
I’m taking a rather longer view of China, Late Revolution, many thousands of years in fact.
My wife is Chinese and her childhood was spent under Mao so I do know a little about the situation from someone who was there. It wasn’t good.
Of course, Mao was a madman a bit like George W., Ronald Reagan, Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, etc. Obama may well belong to that group. History will tell.
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Late Revolution Reply:
March 7th, 2011 at 3:24 am
Obama is merely a puppet, selected to be the face of American leadership. Whether he’s a madman or not is irrelevant. The military-industrial complex is what rules the land. Obama is, in every sense of the word, a figurehead.
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nowayout Reply:
March 7th, 2011 at 4:17 am
If there is something good to say about Obama, it’s that it appears a lot of the zionist wackos don’t like him. Maybe the feeling is mutual. Doesn’t necessarily mean anything other than there is maybe a shred of hope for him yet.
in the past few millennia China didn’t have its people flying all over the world and hooked up back home by internet. Now they do, and the CCP feels an increasing need to keep control of, or to exploit, their expatriots. Their military build-up is partially because they see their people making successes of themselves in Western countries and want to be prepared to defend them in case their people’s isolationism and ghetto-ism gets them in trouble with the Westerners. Remember the goldfield riots of the 19th century? Same deal, only China will try to intervene this time because they’ll hear of it via the internet, and will have organisations on the ground to help, as well as the military means to take advantage of a distracted US. That’s why the overseas are so confident in their dealings, because they believe Big Brother back home is looking out for them if things get rough. Meanwhile the West keeps feeding the dragon, making it stronger…
Pol Pot, Stalin, Mao, Hitler…if that’s what you want for the US, keep distorting the historical record on mass murder and maybe those you panic with your scare campaigns will vote you into office to become the first US dictator. It worked for those despots, it might for you. It appears your talk of peace is disingenuous.
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David G Reply:
March 6th, 2011 at 8:16 am
Peter, do you work for the White House or the State Department? Your talk about America is disingenuous!
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China opening to American business and me living in one nook of the Silicon Valley and meeting many Chinese people who live here now, my eyes have been opened to regular people who are generally friendly, kind and respectful. The Chinese Govt is still a bogeyman to me. They still milk bears and other animals for their life-force and other unspeakable crimes against animals, people, the environment. They imprison and kill and sell the organs of political dissenters and “America” thinks the control China has on its people is peachy. They help each other reach the goal of total control over the populations. Which puts Chinese people and American people in the same boat. This is where it gets complicated. Or maybe not. Some Chinese work for their Government and are not friendly and they spit on the ground when you walk by. Some Americans work for our Government and you better watch what you say or do in their presence. I give them a wide berth even in the food line.
Yes, David, when I make relevant posts elsewhere, I am willing to make a shout out to PEACE and DC. Recently, I have instinctively wanted to do that.
March 19th is the march in San Francisco. It is after payday, so I plan to print up some postcard or flyers of interest with relevant information and DC’s site address.
David, thank you for clarifying the path.
PEACE
‘PREVENT EMPIRE AMERICA CONTROLLING EARTH’
Movement.
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David G Reply:
March 6th, 2011 at 7:55 am
Grace, if we had 100 members like you we would be a formidable force already!
Certainly China is no shining example to the world but it is being forced to involve itself in an arms race to stop being pushed around by America. Russia is in the same boat. America is driving the world towards endless war because it thinks, with its huge army, it will dominate. How can it with only 300 million people?
It’s a foolish quest that will only bring more pain to people like you!
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Here’s how the United States can rule the world, David, providing its population doesn’t rise up against it (which will certainly be no time soon), or total economic collapse decimates its ability to maintain its standing army:
The United States can finish life off on this planet with a THOUSANDTH of its nuclear arsenal. In other words, after the U.S. has obliterated every continent on Earth, it will still have over a thousand equally-destructive nuclear bombs left over. The U.S. has more nuclear weapons than all other nations combined times one hundred.
Is it stupid enough to use them? Possibly. I believe a biological attack engineered by the U.S. on its own people and others is a more likely scenario to take firm control of the planet and its resources, but make no mistake: They have much more at their disposal than China will for a good long time.
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David G Reply:
March 7th, 2011 at 10:35 am
Problem is that using nukes renders the earth uninhabitable, Late Revolution, via radio-activity, etc. So it will be a rather Pyrrhic victory! Likewise using a biological weapons could also have some unintended consequences.
Having WMDs with a small population doesn’t mean you have ultimate power. America is already overstretched.
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Late Revolution Reply:
March 10th, 2011 at 2:32 am
You don’t have to use them, David. You only need them to be there. And given the Bilderberg/Trilateral Commission/Council on Foreign Relations grand dream of an Earth with a population of no more than a billion people, the day may very well come when someone does in fact use these weapons, after building an underground city for the world’s richest.
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David G Reply:
March 10th, 2011 at 11:42 am
Anything is possible in this crazy world, L.R. Humans are capable of greatness and evil but evil seems to be the preferred option.
I’m a regular citizen thinking about the future of the civilisation his country is part of. What I said is based on figures I’ve picked up from here and there, such as 43 million tourist departures from China last year, a doubling of the Chinese expatriot community in the USA and Australia in the past 10 years, the hand-over-fist economic expansion in China in the last decade, and other such figures. Are these all US State Department figures? Would you tell us that Chinese economic growth is a myth, that there has been no increase of Chinese businesses, civilians, or students in the West, that Chinese business is confined to North East Asia, and that the Chinese don’t have any interest in saving face, or in power of any kind? That would defy belief.
One doesn’t need to be in the US State Department to see that the expansion of Chinese business and social networks means that the CCP is slipping into a position where it may, if it is able to maintain control over the hearts of its immense expatriot communities worldwide, instigate a similar sort of chaos to that which has occurred in the Arab world recently. It is a observation of revolutionary political potential, that’s all. I’m sure the US has recognised this too.
Given that the Capital for China’s economic expansion is coming straight out of the Chinese government with its military history (power growing out of the gunbarrel, ‘cultural’ revolution, nationalisation of foreign industries, etc), it is common sense to think that this is lurking behind the expansion. If a country hides a gun behind its back when it insists that other countries give it respect, power, trade concessions, jobs, access to government, resources and land, does the gun disappear? Of course not.
Have you considered the stockpiling of Persian Gulf crude oil in China, the need to drill deeper and deeper to find sources of oil to serve the West, and the expansion of an oil-dependent military to challenge the US presence? Have you thought about what the expansion of the Chinese petrol-car market means to the environment? Have you considered how you might pay for the petrol which the new middle class in China (hundreds of millions of people) also wants?
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David G Reply:
March 7th, 2011 at 11:05 am
Peter, the extent of American influence via its military bases or use of military bases (said to be more than 1,000) makes the movement of Chinese people in the world pale into insignificance.
And the extent of American control of large numbers of nations via threats, bribery and corruption makes China look paltry by comparison.
I think you see what you want to see, Peter. The facts don’t support it.
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Peter Reply:
March 7th, 2011 at 6:15 pm
Far from it. What I really want to see more control over nuclear production, less anti-pluralist rhetoric, and more money in my bank account.
I agree that every analysis of world affairs is subjective, but as far as seeing what I want to see goes, the scenario I described is far from it. In fact, if it were true it would probably be likely to make what I want very difficult, and hence I don’t like it.
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Did a search on Chinese military history and found this. I’ll go see what else I can find on the subject. There seems to be a lot of info available.
“In 221 BCE, the Qin unified China and ushered in the Imperial Era of Chinese history. Although it only lasted 15 years, Qin established institutions that would last for millennia. King Cheng, titling himself as the “First Emperor”, standardized writing systems, weights, coinage, and even the axle lengths of carts. To reduce the chance of rebellion, he made the private possession of weapons illegal. In order for increase the rapid deployment of troops, thousands of miles of roads were built, along with canals that allowed boats to travel long distances.[13] For the rest of Chinese history, a centralized empire was the norm.[5]“
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David G Reply:
March 7th, 2011 at 2:04 pm
What is your point, nowayout?
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nowayout Reply:
March 7th, 2011 at 2:12 pm
My point is that based on what I’ve read so far, the Chinese would not likely join the PEACE movement with peace in mind. Their history is without a doubt one of violence and imperialism. That doesn’t mean the people aren’t pleasant in general, but the rulers have regularly striven for military supremacy and domination.
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China probably doesn’t “waste” money the way the US does. Double digits for them is an efficient use of $$. It is quite out in the open by now what the US with Israel, plan to do all across the oil land Countries and Planet. China, of course has its own counterbalancing plan.
I am suspicious of my own government and of the Chinese government.
I saw a (CIA produced) “Generation Gap” empty out a working class neighborhood in S.F. and in one year an entire region of Chinese people moved in.
They work together and yet they adversaries in the every ‘man’ for himself Global War.
The whole thing gives me the shivers.
Very Dangerous.
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Arab Revolts; a Symptom of Decline of US Hegemony;
Beginning of the End of the ‘End of History’
Like ‘Revolutions’ in East Europe and USSR Collapse
http://mwcnews.net/focus/analysis/8808-decline-of-us-hegemony.html
http://tarafits.blogspot.com/2011/02/arab-revolts-symptom-of-decline-of-us.html
http://low-intensity-conflict-research.blogspot.com/2011/02/arab-revolts-symptom-of-decline-of-us.htmlhttp://cms.boloji.com/index.cfm?md=Content&sd=Articles&ArticleID=10587
“When there is a general change of conditions, it is as if the entire creation had been changed and the whole world been altered.” – Ibn Khaldun
“History is ruled by an inexorable determinism in which the free choice of major historical figures plays a minimal role” – Leo Tolstoy
“What we may be witnessing is not just the end of the Cold War, or the passing of a particular period of postwar history, but the end of history as such… That is, the end point of mankind’s ideological evolution and the universalization of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government.” US Prof Francis Fukuyama
“The war in Iraq is a historic strategic and moral calamity undertaken under false assumptions – undermining America’s global legitimacy – collateral civilian casualties, – abuses, – tarnishing America’s moral credentials. Driven by Manichean impulses and imperial hubris, it is intensifying regional instability.” Zbigniew Brzezinski, National Security Adviser to US President Jimmy Carter.
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David G Reply:
March 8th, 2011 at 10:40 am
Thanks for calling by, Ambassador (retired) and leaving so many links and pertinent quotes.
That the quote from Brzezinski is very true, yet America claims it is stabilizing the world!
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Call me a deafeatist but I personally welcome the destruction of mankind.Time and time again throughout history we have proved ourselves capable of mind boggling destruction and cruelty towards not only ourselves but all other sentinent creatures on this beautiful planet we have been born onto.
You have to ask yourself what would truly be the result if we did all disappear in a cloud of radioactive dust…? Eventually the planet would regenerate and hopefully the ants or the bees or other such stable societys would restablish themselves and no matter how they proceed into the future I think we can safetly say that they would not subject the earth to the absolut rape and pilage we have subjected it to. Can we actually say with any honesty the world is a better place for humans? I think not. We are a Cancer and derserve no better that what I prey is comng to us. Not before time either. Rock on America and China and do your damndest.PUSH THE BUTTON.
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David G Reply:
March 9th, 2011 at 7:52 pm
I feel the way you do sometimes, Cherie. But something drives me to keep trying to change things even though I know I can achieve very little.
We are a cancer, at least most of us are, and greed for wealth and power makes us worse.
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