Monday, August 4, 2014
The Shit That Is Happening In This Country Just Makes You Want To Take An Axe To A Door Sometimes Doesn't It?
Pink Floyd - Careful With That Axe Eugene
Japan To Sell Vietnam 6 Surveillance Vessels To Monitor Chinese Expansionism
Kishida announced the deal by noting that both Japan and Vietnam have agreed upon “maintaining peace and stability” in regional waters. Additionally, he added that both sides had agreed that maritime disputes ought to be resolved “in accordance with maritime law.” Vietnam recently threatened to take China to an international court over the oil rig dispute. Notably, Japan is selling Vietnam used surveillance vessels. According to Reuters, the ships will be accompanied by “training and equipment to help the coastguard and fisheries surveillance effort.” Additionally, according to anonymous Japanese government sources, Japan will further provide Vietnam with radar equipment. ”I hope that this support will contribute to the enhancement of Vietnam’s maritime law enforcement capability,” Kishida said.
As the BBC notes in its coverage of the deal, Japan’s decision to sell maritime surveillance vessels to Vietnam, understood in combination with the United States’ recent base access deal with the Philippines, represents an effort by East Asia’s two major status quo powers to counter China’s revisionist efforts in the South China Sea. Since 2012, Beijing has become far more assertive in its attempts to administer disputed waters in the South China Sea.
For Vietnam, the deal sends a strong message to China. Relations between Vietnam and China, up until the HYSY-981 oil rig incident, were relatively cordial although tensions remained. A good degree of solidarity existed between the Communist parties of the two countries and they cooperated on a range of matters. With this deal, Vietnam signals to China that it is looking for friends elsewhere in the region and finding them. Vietnam also cooperates on military matters with India and Russia.
Japan, a status quo Asia-Pacific power, has also offered maritime surveillance aircraft to India. Specifically, it will likely conclude a deal to sell 15
Sunday, August 3, 2014
An Open Letter to future Americans...
I hope you are all Free, at Liberty, and living in relative harmony.
But I am not sanguine this will be your reality. I am not confident that record of this letter will even be in existence, or if you do come across it somewhere, it will be a language you can read.
If you do find this letter and by some chance you are able to read it, then I hope you have the courage to do so if it is somehow forbidden. I am going to share a bit of your history - the real stuff, not whatever may be written or otherwise communicated to you.
Look for three documents: - Read the Rest HERE
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